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Originally Posted by Damien
It's going to depend on how much work 'blended' into the meal I guess. I think if the police find large quantities of beer/alcohol were ordered - which would be pretty easy - then Starmer is fined. Labour apparently has WhatsApp messages, document edits/emails and video edit times showing that work continued past the party but were those from the building?
As Mick said the beer is critical I think. One beer with a meal they will probably get away with (The Met police didn't investigate the wine/cheese thing in No 10 for example) but if they got hammered it's clearly not work. And the problem for Labour you can't hide that. There would have been a paper trail of the orders. We already know exactly how much curry was ordered so the police likely know exactly how much beer/wine/whatever was ordered.
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Does it matter if work carried on back at the hotel instead of at the Miners Hall? I think it would be impossible to prove that they weren't discussing work matters over a beer and curry and this seems to have been the approach adopted by the Met towards the No 10 cheese and wine party.
What's a reasonable amount of alcohol to be able to continue work? I would probably cap it at two beers but if it turned out to be three beers each would the police start to get that judgmental? It's a hard call!