Minister 'Weaponising' Savile Will Make Labour MPs Queasy - but There's a Bigger Risk

The Savile slur has exposed Labour’s moral bankruptcy

Smearing opponents of the Online Safety Act as friends of predators is a desperate gambit from a flailing regime.

Minister 'weaponising' Savile will make Labour MPs queasy - but there's a bigger risk

The last politician to invoke Jimmy Savile was Boris Johnson when he accused Sir Keir Starmer of failing to investigate him when he headed the CPS. The episode led to the resignation of Mr Johnson's top policy aide.

Why Starmer should think twice before bringing up Jimmy Savile

Minister 'weaponising' Savile Will Make Labour MPs Queasy - But There's A Bigger Risk - Great Yorkshire Radio

The extraordinary row picked by Peter Kyle on Sky News on Tuesday is most definitely the latter of these two. The science secretary’s reference to Jimmy Savile was no slip of the tongue. Ministers seem to believe Reform UK has made a misjudgement in pledging to scrap internet safety laws, given the massive unease across the country about what children are viewing online. As a result, Kyle is trying to point at their position by stoking a spat wi…