Anas Sarwar has said “Boris Johnson should be absolutely ashamed of himself” after Keir Starmer was forced to take refuge after a mob confronted him near Parliament.
The UK Labour leader faced baseless allegations of “protecting paedophiles” and chants about Jimmy Savile last night from protesters before being bundled into a police car for protection.
Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, told the BBC: "We have a deliberate attempt from politicians in power to increase hate, to increase division, in order to distract from their failures.
"So Boris Johnson should absolutely be ashamed of himself.
"He knew exactly what he was doing by throwing that dead cat strategy around the Jimmy Savile trial.
"(There’s) no remorse at all, no thinking about the impact on the families impacted by that directly. It was deliberately targeted to create anger, to cerate a distraction, and to protect his own job.
"The best thing we can do for this country is to get that charlatan out of Downing Street, get that liar, that corrupt individual out of Downing Street, and get honesty and truth back into our politics.”
Nicola Sturgeon has said the if the Prime Minister “has any decency at all” he would say sorry for “choosing to weaponise online conspiracy theories against opponents”.
Boris Johnson has come under fresh pressure over the Jimmy Savile smear he aimed at Sir Keir Starmer after the Labour leader had to be rescued by police from a mob near Parliament.
The First Minister tweeted on Monday: “Any politician choosing to weaponise online conspiracy theories against opponents knows fine well that they risk stirring up the kind of hate and abuse that Keir Starmer experienced today.
"If he has any decency at all, the PM will now apologise unreservedly.”
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