The Labour leader has insisted that he did nothing wrong while working in Durham in the run up to a by-election in April 2021.
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The incident has provoked half-hearted comparisons to the partygate scandal engulfing Downing Street, but Durham Police have now confirmed they did not believe any offence was committed. The Labour says he and his team had stopped for dinner, and he previously told LBC Radio: ‘The restrictions allowed people to work when they needed to, we were running an election campaign, we were in a constituency office.’
Asked if he was prepared to apologise, the Labour leader said: ‘We didn’t break any rules, we were working in the office and we stopped for a takeaway.‘We did nothing wrong.’
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