Police investigating Keir Starmer over car crash with cyclist

Credits Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images Alt Text Keir Starmer is shown around Barford Park Farm in Sailsbury. Labour leader quizzed at London police station after rider taken to hospital One-Minute Read Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 10:20am Police have interviewed Keir Starmer after he was involved in a road collision that put a cyclist in hospital. The Labour leader was driving his SUV near his home in north London when the incident occurred at around midday on Sunday. An eyewitness described hearing “a loud bang” and then seeing a cyclist on the ground “in a lot of pain” from an arm injury, The Sun reports. See related Cycling revolution: ‘demand for bikes has gone ballistic’ Debate: is Keir Starmer making Labour great again - or letting Boris Johnson off the hook? Keir Starmer hit by Labour revolt over ‘licence to kill’ bill A spokesperson for Starmer said that the politician stayed at the scene until an ambulance arrived. Police then left a message at Starmer’s home asking him to report to the nearby police station in Kentish Town, part of his Holborn and St Pancras constituency, where he is believed to have given a full statement later that day. He was not arrested nor interviewed under caution. In what Politico London Playbook’s Alex Wickham describes as “a truly stunning coincidence”, a Sun photographer snapped Starmer outside the police station yesterday morning - but the Labour leader was subsequently revealed not to have set foot inside. A source in the leader of the opposition’s office said that Starmer had not returned to talk to police again but rather was just “walking past it on his way home back from the tailors”. The tailor is on Prince of Wales Road, which is a 12-minute walk from the police station and “kind of on the way to Starmer’s house”, so it “sort of checks out”, Wickham reports. In the run-up to last December’s election, the Labour Party pledged to make England one of the most cycling-friendly places in the world, so that getting around on two wheels was a “genuine option for the many, not just the brave”. Politics Keir Starmer Labour party Metropolitan Police https://www.theweek.co.uk/108498/police-investigating-keir-starmer-after-car-crash-with-cyclist #uk_news