{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9475d117-fcd4-4915-a6f3-923941e7aa0d/62028e2625dd03001231af59?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Boris Johnson's Savile slur: Are we heading for ‘Trumpian Politics’?","description":"<p>Several MPs are calling on the Prime Minister to apologise for comments he made about Sir Keir Starmer in the commons, after the Labour Leader was mobbed outside Westminster.</p><p><br></p><p>Last week the PM made a discredited claim that Sir Keir ‘failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile’ when he was director of public prosecutions; a comment repeated by a group of protestors who surrounded the Labour leader yesterday.</p><p><br></p><p>Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has warned the UK is moving towards a ‘Trumpian style of politics’ and the sister of murdered MP Jo Cox, Kim Leadbeater tweeted “Words have consequences, leaders have a duty to behave responsibly &amp; politics is not a game”.</p><p><br></p><p>The Evening Standard’s Political Editor Nicholas Cecil discusses the calls for Boris Johnson to apologise, whether politics is moving into a ‘Trumpian era’, and whether the Savile slur was a political tool to divert attention away from ‘Party-gate’.</p><p><br></p><p>Check our our brand new business podcast An Invitation to Meet: <a href=\"https://pod.fo/e/10a2d1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://pod.fo/e/10a2d1</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"The Evening Standard"}