Boris Johnson seems to have mocked Sir Keira Starmer for the so-called Beergate saga as they entered the Lords’ speech together for the Queen.
The prime minister smiled and asked the Labor leader if he had a “quiet weekend” – apparently a reference to renewed pressure on Starmer over the beer and curry he consumed with Labor last April.
Sir Kear smiled before the couple held a briefing in light conversations as they marched side by side in a procession of deputies in the hall.
Conservative MPs later taunted Starmer over a Durham police investigation into a home-cooked meal eaten during Covid’s restrictions – one of the Tory backpackers joked that the Labor leader was suffering from “karma”.
Graham Stewart put the boot in the Durham police investigation into the home curry eaten last April, telling Starmer that “the only thing that opens up to him in the north is a police investigation.”
The Tory MP also joked that “never before in the history of human conflicts has so much karma come from stern”, which caused additional laughter from the Tory benches.
This comes after Sir Keir said on Monday that he would do the “right thing” and leave if he was issued a fixed notice of punishment in connection with a collection at employment offices, as he again denied having violated any is the rules.
Over the weekend, the Mail on Sunday published an expired note stating that the dinner was planned as part of Sir Care’s itinerary for one day of the campaign and no further work was planned thereafter.
Earlier on Tuesday, Home Secretary Keith Malthaus said that if Sir Keir resigned, it did not mean Johnson should do the same. “I don’t see why someone, whether so tall or so modest, should lose their job,” he told GB News.
Tory MPs are mocking Keir Starmer over a police investigation
In response to the Queen’s speech, Starmer congratulated Johnson on becoming “the first Downing Street resident” to serve on the Labor Council after the Tories lost Westminster in local elections.
Sir Keir chose not to mention Partygate in the Municipalities, but accused Johnson of giving a “pathetic” response to the cost of living crisis by presenting a “thin” legislative program to parliament.
Johnson tried to mock Starmer, calling him “the current opposition leader” and calling Labor lawmakers “big trembling jellies of indecision” when it comes to nuclear power.
Meanwhile, in comments to the Queen’s speech, Conservative Faye Jones welcomed the online security bill, “which will protect the unsuspecting farmer from vicious videos on the Internet” – a joke about outgoing Tory MP Neil Parish, who has been caught watching porn.
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