Senior Tory Sir Roger Gale has urged Mr Johnson to make a Commons apology over the abuse which he feared could be the result of Mr Johnson’s ‘deliberately careless’ Savile allegation.
Outraged Conservative MPs – already weighing up whether to oust the Prime Minister – are among those to link the abuse of thepolice had to rescue Sir Keir from a baying mob of protestersThe PM is now being accused of ‘drifting towards Trumpian style politics’ after he wrongly claimed Sir Keir ‘used his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile’ while Director of Public Prosecutions .
‘It is really important for our democracy & for his security that the false Savile slurs made against him are withdrawn in full.’ The PM has been lurching from crisis to crisis after months of allegations around parties at Downing Street, with dozens of Tories thought to have submitted letters of no confidence – if that number reaches 54 Mr Johnson will face a vote on his future.
Senior Tory Sir Roger Gale urged Mr Johnson to make a Commons apology on Tuesday over the abuse which he feared could be the result of Mr Johnson’s ‘deliberately careless’ Savile allegation.‘It has, I’m afraid, played into the hands of some rather unpleasant people,’ the MP, first elected in 1983, said.
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