Share Meanwhile, Camden Council’s cabinet has agreed a report from December to raise its council tax by 5 per cent. With a huge Labour majority in the council, the hike will go through when the new charge is set next month. And where is Sir Keir Starmer’s Holborn constituency? Camden. Surely picket lines are outlawed during lockdown life in Britain How depressing to see Starmer is carrying on where his predecessors left off by backing strikers. ‘Solidarity with British Gas workers striking against attempts to fire and rehire them on worse terms,’ he tweeted. At least he’ll be spared the dilemma of whether to join a picket line.