PMQs: Johnson doubles down on Starmer Savile smear
Starmer accused Johnson of promoting the "conspiracy theories of violent fascists" with his comments.
Starmer accused Johnson of promoting the "conspiracy theories of violent fascists" with his comments.
A Lancashire County Councillor said there are "much more important things to worry about".
Tobias Ellwood said Partygate would "invariably slide towards a very ugly place".
The prime minister discussed his “brilliant strategy” for dealing with the media during an appearance on BBC’s Booktalk in 2006.
He is the tenth Tory MP has publicly called for Boris Johnson to resign "in the best interests of the country."
But Dominic Raab claimed the comments were just the "cut and thrust of parliamentary debates".
“I wonder if Daily Express readers have noticed Boris Johnson has just hiked their taxes to a 70 year high to help pay for the NHS after he promised a massive Brexit dividend of £350m a week if we left the European Union,” lawyer and filmmaker Peter Stefanovic said.
It echoes moves made in 2018, when he flew to Afghanistan to avoid a vote on a third runway at Heathrow as foreign secretary.
The SNP leader said - again and again - that Johnson had "wilfully misled Parliament", before being tossed out by the Speaker.
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