UK police to investigate Labour leader over possible lockdown breach


Britain's Labour leader Keir Starmer walks during celebration of the 2022 local elections results in Carlisle, Britain May 6, 2022. REUTERS/Scott Heppell

LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Friday they would investigate opposition leader Keir Starmer over a potential breach of COVID-19 lockdown rules in 2021 after receiving significant new information, delivering an embarrassing blow to the Labour Party.

Starmer, who previously served as the country's top prosecutor, has led calls for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and finance minister Rishi Sunak to resign after they both received fines relating to a birthday party celebration thrown for Johnson by staff in his Downing Street office in June 2020.

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