How and why the rumour emerged, the facts of the case, and why the PM is talking about it
The Savile row: your questions answered about Boris Johnson’s false claims that Keir Starmer failed to prosecute sex offender Jimmy Savile.
Speculation began circulating online in 2020 that Starmer had a role in the decision not to prosecute the TV and radio presenter before his death in 2011.
Shortly after Savile’s death, hundreds of his victims said he had abused them in hospitals, schools and on the sets of BBC programmes.
Police on several occasions had investigated abuse claims against Savile while he was alive, and he was interviewed under caution in 2009 by Surrey police but no arrest was made.
Starmer, the current Labour party leader, was the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and head of the CPS from 2008 until 2013.
This has prompted claims online, particularly among far-right activists and so-called “paedophile hunters”, that Starmer had a role in a decision not to prosecute.
Amid calls for his resignation over “partygate” claims, Johnson said on Monday that Starmer “used his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”.
After facing criticism for his comments from lawyers representing Savile’s victims, the Speaker of the House Lindsay Hoyle, and several senior Conservatives, Johnson on...
The Alliance for a Safe Community chairman urges authorities to take uncompromising legal action against companies accused of submitting false claims under SOCSO's Daya Kerjaya 2.0 programme COMPAN...