Speaker slaps down Boris Johnson's Jimmy Savile slur - 'show respect'

Mirror ^ | Feb 1 | Dan Bloom

[RandFan]

Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle slapped down Boris Johnson today for using an “untrue slur” about Jimmy Savile and Sir Keir Starmer.

The Speaker said the Prime Minister’s comments were not “disorderly”, but warned they would “inflame opinions and generate disregard for the House”.

He added: “I am far from satisfied that the comments in question were appropriate on this occasion.”

The flailing Prime Minister tried to associate Labour ’s leader with the notorious paedophile entertainer in a Commons outburst that was slammed even by his own MPs.

Sir Keir led the Crown Prosecution Service when it decided not to prosecute Savile in 2009 due to insufficient evidence, a decision it later apologised for.

But the Full Fact website investigated in 2020 and found it had never actually been suggested that Sir Keir was personally involved in the decision

Instead, the CPS said: “The reviewing lawyer at the time set out their own reasons for the decisions they took”.

Despite this, the cornered PM lashed out yesterday, saying: “He spent most of his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile, as far as I can make out.”

He also bizarrely insinuated the Labour frontbench was on drugs, without evidence.

[RandFan]

I picked up on his comment in the live thread here (I actually thought it was a good punch!):

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Boris just said the leader of the opposition as a former chief prosecutor spent most of his time failing to prosecute Jimmy Saville (a celebrity who was a pedo)

Ouch.

[Red Badger]

The pig that is stuck squeals the loudest.....................

[Socon-Econ]

BoJo is having these problems because he’s making personal insinuations rather than pounding the issues. During his first two years, Trump also got into needless trouble over this.