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Boris Johnson under fire for false Starmer and Savile remarks in Commons

Guardian, 02 Feb 2022
The Commons Speaker has rebuked the prime minister for making a false insinuation that Keir Starmer refused to prosecute the serial sex offender Jimmy Savile, but stopped short of demanding an apology. Lindsay Hoyle’s intervention came after the Tory former chief whip Julian Smith became the most senior Conservative to urge Johnson to withdraw the insinuation about Starmer.

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