Boris Johnson enters election battle by repeating incendiary claim Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile
BORIS Johnson entered election battle last night – by repeating his incendiary claim Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile.
The ex-PM provoked fury the last time he aimed the dig at the Labour boss.
But he piled in again, saying of ex-Crown Prosecution Service boss Starmer: “He takes responsibility for everything that took place on his watch — except of course for the failure to prosecute the paedophile, necrophiliac and BBC superstar Jimmy Savile.”
Tory bosses hope BoJo will campaign for the party in key Red Wall seats – but he is yet to be directly asked by PM Rishi Sunak.
Sir Keir previously dismissed the Savile claim as a “ridiculous slur.”
Pals of Boris say that Mr Sunak and his team had not yet reached out to ask him to campaign and the pair have only exchanged the odd WhatsApp.
It’s understood any appearance of the stump is still some time away and its unlikely the awkward couple would share a stage.
But Tory sources say they “hope to see Boris out campaigning – and there are many different ways to make the case against a Keir Starmer government.”
Boris took a swing at the Labour boss in his Daily Mail column, saying: “I don’t believe these opinion polls for one second. I don’t believe that Labour will maintain anything like this lead, as polling day approaches on July 4.
“Here is why: I just cannot believe that the British people would be so utterly mad as to hand Keir Starmer a majority on this scale.
He added: “This election will be much closer than currently forecast, because when people actually suck their teeth and consider the possibilities, they will hesitate deeply before opening the bilges and pumping parliament full of hundreds and hundreds of unknown Left-wing Labour MPs.”
And taking aim as Starmer himself, he wrote: From the moment Starmer took over as Leader of the Opposition, he has been a pathetic captive of the woke tyranny – a tyranny that stifles common sense and that forces people to start spouting blank nonsense.”