Downing Street policy chief Munira Mirza has resigned over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s failure to apologise for making a “scurrilous” accusation against Labour Party leader Keir Starmer in Parliament.
In a heated exchange in the House of Commons on Jan. 31, as Johnson came under pressure over alleged COVID-19 lockdown breaches on Downing Street, he accused the opposition leader, a former chief state prosecutor, of using his time for “prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile,” one of the UK’s most egregious sex offenders, before his death in 2011.
