🔺Update: Boris Johnson will not apologise for linking Keir Starmer with the failure to prosecute Jimmy Savile
Downing Street insisted today that the prime minister would go no further than he had previously by “clarifying” his remarks last week.Ministers also denied that Johnson’s comments were in any way linked to yesterday’s ambush of Starmer by a mob who accused him of protecting the paedophile.Police had to bundle Starmer into a car after he was surrounded by a group of protesters shouting the child sex offender’s name and slurs including “paedo protector”.
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