What did Keir Starmer do as DPP?

Boris Johnson renews Jimmy Savile ’conspiracy theory’ in ’baseless’ attack on Labour leader

Keir Starmer
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Keir Starmer’s past has come under scrutiny this week after Boris Johnson dredged up an old claim that when the Labour leader was the director of public prosecutions (DPP) he “failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile”, the serial paedophile.

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