UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has refused to apologise after images emerged of him drinking beer in an office in April 2021, insisting that he did not break COVID-19 rules. Starmer was pictured having a drink in the office of Mary Foy, Labour MP for the City of Durham, on April 30, 2021, when indoor socialising was banned in England under CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus rules. But he denied he broke the rules, saying that he was working in an election campaign in the run-up to May’s local elections and the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election. Starmer told LBC radio on Jan. 17: “The picture of me was in a constituency office up in the north east. It was, I think, three or four days before the May elections, so we’re really busy. I was with my team going across the country from place to place. We’re in the …