Boris Johnson references Jimmy Savile in fiery exchange with Keir Starmer

Boris Johnson accused Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile as he hit back at Labour criticism over the Sue Gray report.

The Prime Minister apologised and promised to make widespread changes following the publishing of Sue Gray's report.

In response to the apology, the Labour leader branded Boris Johnson as the "man without the shame".

But Boris Johnson hit back at Starmer, referencing his time as a lawyer and the Jimmy Saville case.

The Prime Minister said: “The report does absolutely nothing to substantiate the tissue of nonsense that he has said. Absolute nonsense.

“Instead this leader of the opposition, a former director of public prosecution – who used his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile, as far as I can see – he chose to use this moment to continually pre-judge a police inquiry.

“He has reached his conclusions about it. I am not going to reach any conclusions and he would be entirely wrong to do so.

“I have complete confidence in the police, I hope that they will be allowed simply to get on with their job and don’t propose to offer any more commentary about it and I don’t believe that he should either.”