Sir Keir Starmer accused Boris Johnson of “blaming everyone else” for the party during a fierce exchange at the House of Commons.
The Labor leader said the prime minister had chosen to “slander worthy people” in private, but there was no “backbone to repeat it publicly”.
He claims that Mr. Johnson showed a different attitude “after the cameras were turned off” during bad conversations during the Prime Minister’s questions.
Sir Keir accused him of returning to “blaming everyone else” for his troubles – including the Archbishop of Canterbury – after his apology to the party.
He called it an “excuse with a dirty mouth when the cameras are spinning”, a vicious attack on those who tell the truth as soon as the cameras are turned off. Slander decent people in a private room, let the slander spread without a backbone, to repeat it publicly “
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His comments focus on reports that Mr. Johnson criticized Archbishop Justin Welby at a closed-door meeting in the back of the Tories hours after his appearance in the City Hall.
Sir Kear also said Prime Minister Allegra Stratton’s spin doctor, COVID adviser Professor Neil Ferguson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock had resigned over the pandemic.
He asked: “Why does the prime minister think that the actions of everyone else have consequences except his own?
Mr Johnson responded by accusing Sir Care of “some kind of distortion of Dr. Who’s time” and described him as “a corbinist in an elegant Islington suit”.
Sir Kerr said the prime minister had attacked the BBC’s coverage of the invasion of Ukraine, but Mr Johnson said the allegation showed that the Labor leader was “out of his mind”.
It was the second day of pressure from lawmakers on Mr Johnson for the party after he apologized to the municipality on Tuesday after his fine last week for violating blocking rules.
Image: Boris Johnson says Sir Keir Starmer is a “corbinist in an elegant Islington suit”
Sir Keir said: “Yesterday’s apology lasted as long as the prime minister thought it necessary to cut for the news.
“But after the cameras were turned off, the prime minister went to see his ass and again started blaming everyone else.
“He even said that the Archbishop of Canterbury was not critical enough of Putin.
“In fact, the archbishop called Putin’s war an act of great evil.”
Mr Johnson faces new setbacks to resign other opposition lawmakers, including Richard Thomson of the SNP, who was told to withdraw his description of Mr Johnson as “Pinocchio’s prime minister”, whom the public wants to he saw “packing his bags and leaving.”
Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Savil Roberts asked Mr Johnson if he would support a law banning “lies in politics”.
He replied, “It is well known that the rules of this chamber require us to tell the truth in this chamber, and that is what we are trying to do.”
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Sky deputy political editor Sam Coates said the prime minister was trying to distance himself from the party, but that Sir Keir “apparently got under the prime minister’s skin”.
“Keir Starmer was in better shape, and Boris Johnson may be a little more grumpy than I remember for a while,” he said.
“Keir Starmer has done what he doesn’t always do, namely to have very specific issues that have obviously come under the Prime Minister’s skin.
On Thursday, the prime minister will face a vote on a proposal by opposition parties calling on the parliamentary privileges committee to investigate whether he misled the chamber with his initial allegations that no rules were violated during the party’s door, although he himself Mr. Johnson will be in India.
The wording of the proposal – which will have to garner the support of some Tory MPs in order to succeed – has ordered the investigation not to begin until Partygate’s police investigation is complete.
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