Goody two-shoes Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was busted as a teenager for illegally flogging ice creams
GOODY two-shoes Sir Keir Starmer was busted as a teenager illegally flogging ice creams for lolly.
A university pal has revealed the future Labour leader - who once described himself as "Mr Rules" - took a summer job as an ice cream vendor on the French Riviera.
John Murray told the Politico website they had been lured to the South of France while studying law at Leeds under a false promise of “sun, sea and a healthy salary.”
He said: “We spent a month in the south of France as almost beach bums, selling ice creams to tourists, and making about four francs a day.
“The place was overrun with other beach sellers, because they’d all been suckered into thinking they’d earn hundreds of pounds a day.
“And then we found out it was actually not legal.
“So we spent our time kind of avoiding being arrested.”
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He added: “To be honest, I did get arrested.
“But all that happened was you had your ice creams confiscated, got a receipt, then had to walk back to the beach without your flip flops.”
Asked if Sir Keir - who would later become the Director of Public Prosecutions - was also nicked, he said: “I can’t say that”, before adding: “I think he probably had his ice creams confiscated.”
Last night a Labour spokesman said: “We are happy to make clear that no arrests were made, or even names taken, and that the only loss of liberty occurred to some cut-price ice creams.”
