Keir Fixed It

Just as Boris Johnson could not have apologised to the Queen for parties that had never happened, and lest we forget that not very long ago he was saying that they never had, so Keir Starmer could not have apologised for the failure of the Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute Jimmy Savile if that failure had had nothing to do with him.

Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions when that decision was made, so he would have been responsible for it even if he had had no direct role in it. But no one can seriously believe that. Savile's trial would have been the highest profile in living memory. Of course it was the DPP who made the decision not to charge him.

Starmer was sly enough not to leave a paper trail because he had already decided to go into politics afterwards. If he had been any threat to the failed economic and foreign policy order, then Panorama and Dispatches would already have broadcast Labour's Nonce Shame or some such. Clearly, he is not.