Labour leader Keir Starmer has trolled Dominic Cummings during a trip to a BrewDog pub, having been photographed holding a can of the brewery's Barnard Castle Eye Test beers.
BrewDog released the tipple at the end of May as a tongue-in-cheek nod to Cummings' lockdown trip to Durham, when he flouted the rules and travelled 260 miles with his wife and child.
Starmer decided to try one out for himself today (6 July) when he popped down to the BrewDog bar in Tower Hill, London, smiling to the camera as he held up a can.
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Sharing the picture on Facebook, BrewDog wrote: "Today, Keir Starmer popped into our Tower Hill Outpost to see the team after our reopening weekend, and pick up a beer..."
The Barnard Castle Eye Test beer is a 'hazy IPA' that bills itself as a 'dry-hopped for a juicy hit with pineapple, mango and a hint of zesty lime at ABV 6%'.
Being sold on BrewDog's online shop, costing £16.95 for 12 x 330ml cans, all profits from the beer going towards funding BrewDog's production of free sanitiser for the NHS and Health Care Charities.
Brewdog founder James Watt said the beer is best enjoyed 'in rose gardens', referencing Cummings' sun-dappled press conference in the No. 10 garden - in which he claimed he travelled 26 miles from his parents' property to Barnard Castle, a medieval castle located in the market town of the same name, in order to check his eyesight.
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He said: "My wife was very worried, particularly because my eyesight seemed to have been affected by the disease. She didn't want to risk a nearly 300 mile drive with our child, given how ill I had been.
"We agreed to go for a short drive to see if I could drive safely. I drove for roughly half an hour and we ended up on the outskirts of Barnard Castle town.
"We didn't visit the castle, we didn't walk around the town. We parked by a river. My wife and I discussed the situation, we agreed I could drive safely and we turn around and go home."
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Defending his trip in general, Cummings had also said he believed he 'behaved responsibly'.
He said: "I don't regret what I did. Reasonable people may well disagree about how I thought about what to do.
"I think what I did was reasonable in these circumstances. In terms of the rules, I think the rules made clear if you're dealing with small children that can be exceptional circumstances.
"I think the way I dealt with it was the least risk to everybody concerned if my wife and I were unable to look after our four-year-old."
Featured Image Credit: BrewDog/Facebook