The Prime Minister’s Jimmy Savile smear against Sir Keir Starmer had the potential to create “a violence of emotional reaction” and showed “a lack of respect” to the families of Savile’s victims, the widower of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox said.
Brendan Cox told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “When you throw around accusations of people protecting paedophiles or or not moving against paedophiles, it creates a viscerality of debate and a violence of emotional reaction.
“You’ve seen that in the US, the QAnon conspiracy theory there, initially on the margins, was then put into the centre of politics by Republicans and it led to violence – it led to people turning up in pizza parlours with automatic rifles.
