Anas Sarwar has backed Keir Starmer to take Labour into the next general election despite the UK party leader facing mounting questions over beergate.
It comes during an investigation by police over whether a beer-and-curry gathering in Durham in April last year breached lockdown rules.
Labour insists the food was consumed between work events - meaning it was within the rules despite a ban on indoor socialising.
But the party faced fresh questions after a leaked memo suggested the takeaway was planned with no further work apparently scheduled after dinner.Sarwar insisted it was important not to draw a "false equivalence" between the actions of Starmer and Boris Johnson.The Scottish Labour leader - who was speaking at an event in Easterhouse today - claimed his boss was "willing, keen and happy" to answer any questions on the matter."This is an issue the police looked at before and found no case to answer," he told reporters after making a speech to party activists and councillors."But I would be careful not to draw a false equivalence of what we are talking about here and what happened at Downing Street."At Downing Street you had regular, planned parties in the deepest, darkest parts of lockdown."And you had a Prime Minister denying he was even present and then lying about it in the House of Commons."So let's not draw some false equivalence between.
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