Organisers of an event at which the former Director of Public Prosecutions was due to speak have confirmed it has been cancelled.
Sir Keir has said he was working and stopped to eat when he was filmed having a drink in Durham in April last year - at a time when rules banned household mixing indoors, apartDurham Police are now investigating the event after a leaked memo obtained by the Mail of Sunday revealed it was in fact pre-planned, in contrast to Labour's earlier claims it was decided on the night as"nowhere served food".
Labour did not offer an explanation as to why its party's leader was no longer attending the gathering, which was timed to precede Tuesday's Queen's Speech.
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