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PMQs: Boris doubles down on Jimmy Savile claims

(Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament)

Today’s PMQs suggests that some of the immediate heat has gone the partygate crisis, if only temporarily. Sir Keir Starmer did not make all his questions about parties, instead widening out his attacks to Conservative tax policy.

The faces of most of his backbenchers froze as he doubled down, saying that Starmer had apologised for what the CPS had done

Starmer did though open by complaining about the behaviour of the Prime Minister in Monday’s statement on the Gray report, saying that the leader of the party of Winston Churchill was now repeating the conspiracies of ‘violent fascists to try and score cheap political points’. Curiously, Boris Johnson chose to double down on the claim he’d made that Starmer had refused to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions, despite the way this has wound up a lot of Tory MPs. Indeed, the faces of most of his backbenchers froze as he doubled down, saying that Starmer had apologised for what the CPS had done.

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