No Fine for Starmer

Boris Johnson's "Partygate" was November 2020, weeks before Christmas, when the general public were getting strong hints that Christmas would be on lockdown again, and there were no vaccines available.

Keir Starmers "Beergate" was April 2021. We were out of lockdown so my calendar tells me, and I (clinically vulnerable) was getting my second vaccine.

I think personally the timing of the vaccines should be considered. November 2020 they were a promise of something to come. In April 2021 we were looking at the end of dangerous Covid cases.

November 2020 Covid deaths in the UK reached 11,645.
April 2021 Covid deaths in the UK reached 1,242.

source www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-reported-sars-cov-2-deaths-in-england/covid-19-confirmed-deaths-in-england-to-31-april-2021-report

Further, "partygate" was social gatherings, undeniable and laughed about by Downing Street staff.

My opinion.

I'm sure they're flying on twitter .

There will be those who have said from the start that it would be a fix because the Durham Police Commissioner is Labour..

(Doesn't really explain how they let Cummings off for far more blatant actual rule breaking)

Just waiting for the conspiracy theories (not necessarily on Gransnet) to start.

BlueBelle

He wouldn’t have put it all on the line if he had thought there was the slightest possibility it could have gone the other way

You'd expect a former Director of Public Prosecutions to be just a wee bit clued up about rules of evidence and interpreting the law.

It was nonsense right from the start.

Starmer’s not a fool or a liar. There are some on Gransnet who will be most disappointed nonetheless.

Not surprised but so relieved. The Conservatives are still out to get him, though.

Starmer knows the law.

He has a reputation to uphold, he would not have knowingly broken the law.

From the Guardian:
The force is Durham police who had cleared him once!

The force said it had come under pressure from some newspapers and Conservative MPs to look at the event again.

He wouldn’t have put it all on the line if he had thought there was the slightest possibility it could have gone the other way