{"id":1114861,"date":"2021-12-13T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1114861"},"modified":"2021-12-13T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T19:14:51","slug":"u-k-opposition-leader-decries-covid-hypocrisy-of-ruling-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-k-opposition-leader-decries-covid-hypocrisy-of-ruling-class\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. opposition leader decries COVID hypocrisy of ruling class"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-k-opposition-leader-decries-covid-hypocrisy-of-ruling-class%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1114861&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2611018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2611018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Labour\u2019s Keir Starmer gestures, during the Labour leadership hustings at the SEC centre, in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020 (Jane Barlow via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:43 AM PT \u2013 Monday, December 13, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>British opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer is denouncing the hypocrisy of government officials who had a party at 10 Downing Street while recommending COVID lockdowns for citizens.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWell, if the prime minister is going to allow breaking of the rules, parties, quizzes going on in Downing Street when we\u2019re being asked not to see our loved ones, well why should I follow the rules?\u201d he asked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Starmer said Sunday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is personally responsible for that scandal and he believes this is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou know, we can argue all morning about what the rules should be, whether this measure is necessary or that measure is necessary,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe critical question is: will the public follow the rules? And so, of course there is the question of what the conditions should be, but there\u2019s also this basic question of trust and that is broken with the prime minister and that is why he is unfit for office.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnson aide Allegra Stratton, who laughed when asked about that party, has been forced to resign while MP\u2019s say they expect more resignations from the Johnson cabinet over the scandal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I will regret those remarks for the rest of my days&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Allegra Stratton gives a tearful statement as she resigns as government adviser, after she was seen in video joking about lockdown Christmas party at No 10<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xr1lLgIXwI\">https:\/\/t.co\/xr1lLgIXwI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Idqbe5vgtO\">pic.twitter.com\/Idqbe5vgtO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCBreaking\/status\/1468611476390879235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/south-african-president-govt-hold-memorial-for-last-apartheid-president-f-w-de-klerk\/\">South African President, Govt. Hold Memorial For Last Apartheid President F.W. De Klerk<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour\u2019s Keir Starmer gestures, during the Labour leadership hustings at the SEC centre, in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020 (Jane Barlow via AP) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 10:43 AM PT \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}