by the labour leader sir keir starmer who had to be escorted to safety by police, near the houses of parliament. there were shouts of traitor and someone can be heard shouting jimmy savile , taken to be a reference to the false accusation made by borisjohnson that sir keir, a former director of public prosecutions, had failed to prosecute savile for child sex offences. our political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports. this is not normal rough and tumble, but abuse and untrue accusations being hurled at the leader of the accusation. one false claim that he protected the paedophilejimmy savile. keir starmer bundled into a police car. two arrests were made. it happened outside parliament, where, seven days ago, the prime minister made a false link between the two. look, i m sure there were some people out
there were shouts of traitor and someone can be heard shouting jimmy savile , taken to be a reference to the false accusation made by borisjohnson that sir keir, a former director of public prosecutions, had failed to prosecute savile for child sex offences. our political editor, laura kuenssberg, reports. mrjohns and made no reference despite calls from senior aides to withdraw. mrjohnson. mrjohnson. this is not normal rough and tumble, but abuse and untrue accusations being hurled at the leader of the accusation one false claim that he protected the paedophile jimmy savile. all shouting. keir starmer bundled to a police car. two arrests were made. it happened outside parliament, where, seven days ago, the prime minister made a false link between the two. look, i m sure there were some people out there who already had conspiracy theories in their head, but the prime minister s given them
number 10 s head of policy munira mirza, quit over what she described as scurrilous accusations . a number of mps have tweeted about this. labour mp chris bryant said: this is what happens when a prime minister descends into the gutter and recycles lies from hard right conspiracy theorists. tory mpjulian smith agreed. it is really important for our democracy and for his security that the false savile slurs made against him are withdrawn in full. sonia, the government were digging in yesterday. there is still no apology from the prime minister. his new communications director is a pr expert, and he will know that the best way to end a crisis like this is just to apologise and get rid of it. why is he refusing to do so? i think one of the big reasons is
august. the sportswear giant nike has dropped the manchester united forward mason greenwood after his arrest on suspicion of rape. the 20 year old was also held on suspicion of assault and making threats to kill, but later released on bail. britain s prime minister borisjohnson has condemned the harassment suffered on monday by the labour leader sir keir starmer who had to be escorted to safety by police, near the houses of parliament. there were shouts of traitor and someone can be heard shouting jimmy savile taken to be a reference to the false accusation made by borisjohnson that sir keir, a former director of public prosecutions, had failed to prosecute savile for child sex offences. in his statement mrjohnson made no reference to the accusation despite calls
a false link between the two. we know exactly how this plays out, because we ve seen it in the united states of america. if borisjohnson keeps on doing this, we will see exactly the same as in the united states of america. mps will be hounded on their way into parliament and there will be people on the steps of parliament, just as there were on the 6th of january on congress in the united states. the prime minister wrongly suggested the labour leader had been involved in the decisions not to prosecute savile when he was the boss of public prosecutions. after a huge row, borisjohnson rather changed what he was saying, but he did not say sorry. a lot of people have got 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. the prime minister says.