Boris Johnson has u-turned on his false claim that Keir Starmer failed to prosecute the notorious child abuser Jimmy Savile.
The Prime Minister caused outrage in the Commons on Monday when he gave oxygen to the far-right conspiracy theory that the Labour leader, when he was director of public prosecutions in England, failed to take action against the paedophile.
On Wednesday the Tory leader doubled down on the claim at Prime Minister’s Questions and told journalists he had been ”fairly accurate” despite it being pointed out to him that the conspiracy theory was a far-right slur shared online.
But on a visit to Blackpool on Thursday the Prime Minister retracted the claim and said he wanted to “clarify” what he meant.The Prime Minister said: “I want to be very clear about this because a lot of people have got very hot under the collar, and I understand why.“Let’s be absolutely clear, I’m talking not about the Leader of the Opposition’s personal record when he was DPP and I totally understand that he had nothing to do personally with those decisions.
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