Starmer blames PM’s Savile slur for inciting mob that accosted him

Labour leader says he was never accused in public of being paedophile protector' before Johnson remark

Keir Starmer has blamed Boris Johnson's slur about Jimmy Savile for inciting a mob that accosted him outside parliament on Monday.

The Labour leader said he had never before been accused in public of being a paedophile protector" until the prime minister falsely accused him of failing to prosecute Savile when he was director of public prosecutions (DPP) a week before the attack.