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The voice of reason
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Boris Johnson 'not to blame' for harassment of Sir Keir Starmer, minister says
Chris Philp, the digital minister, did not back calls for the Prime Minister to apologise for his comments where he accused the Labour leader of "failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile" during his time as head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
“I don’t think you can point to what the Prime Minister said as the cause of that, you certainly can’t blame him for the fact that mob were clearly behaving in a completely unacceptable way,” he told Sky News.
“You can’t say that what he said promoted, provoked or in any way justified the harassment or intimidation which we saw last night.”
The minister went on to say that Sir Keir apologised for the failings of the CPS “in the same way that the Prime Minister has apologised for the failings in No 10”.
Telegraph today
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