Thread by @EdmundGriffiths

I'm afraid I still find all this bizarre. He didn't actually _say_ Sir Keir was involved in the decision: he said he was director of public prosecutions (which he was) & he didn't prosecute (which he didn't). It's at least an arguable claim
bbc.co.uk/news/60213975

Compared to the things that get thrown around at other politicians (other leaders of the Labour Party, indeed) this is not a shocking scandalous outrageous line

But everybody's acting as though he'd said Starmer is a serial killer

Like a game of Mornington Crescent. Johnson's chugging all round the houses, everyone muttering "oh well played sir, damn fine shot, he may stretch the rules but he never breaks them", then suddenly he says Marble Arch & they all go Nooooooooooooooooo

Concrete example: how is this _more_ of a lie than "Labour caused the financial crisis", which the govt repeated for years without calling the wrath of the fact checkers down on their heads?

It's somewhat similar in that Lab were in charge at the time, but their decisions prob didn't really cause it; if anything that one is the bigger lie, bc a British govt is in charge of the world economy a lot less than the DPP is in charge of the CPS