Boris Johnson's Conservative support discussed by Raab
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Dominic Raab refuted suggestions from Keir Starmer claiming Boris Johnson is free to confirm whether he attended or not a party at his own Downing Street party despite the ongoing Met Police investigation. The Prime Minister was repeatedly challenged in Parliament to share insight on his whereabouts on November 13, 2020 when he is alleged to have attended a party despite the national lockdown. BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker asked: “You said a few times in this interview nobody wants to get to the bottom of this more than the Conservative Party.
“If that’s the case, why can’t the Prime Minister answer clearly when he is asked in Parliament whether he was at that event which is meant to have taken place in the Downing Street flat?”
Mr Raab explained: “Because the minute you start commenting on something which is subject to a police investigation, you’ll be accused of pre-judging it.”
But Mr Walker hit back: “This is just a factual question.
“We asked Keir Starmer this on the programme and he said the Prime Minister saying he can’t say whether he was there…his words were ‘this is absolute nonsense.’
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“And once again he said, ‘he is insulting the intelligence of the country’.”
But the deputy Prime Minister took a swipe at the Labour leader, noting his experience as the ex-Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) he “should know better.”
Mr Raab said: “Frankly, as a former DPP, Keir Starmer should know better.
“Because you don’t comment on a police investigation once it’s underway.
“Of course, if he did, he would be widely criticized, probably again, by Keir Starmer for interfering and preempting and trying to meddle in an investigation which is, quite rightly, conducted independently.”
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Sir Keir told BBC Breakfast: “What the last few weeks have caused for so many people is a sort of reliving of some of the dark moments. There has been anger, there’s been grief and there’s been guilt.
“I’ve spoken to so many people who say to me ‘look Keir, I felt guilty that I followed the rules because I should have done this for my dad and I didn’t, I should have done that for my elderly parent and I didn’t because I followed the rules – and now I feel like a mug because the Prime Minister broke the rules and he’s pretending that he didn’t’.
“I think that emotion is very important.
“One of the things I tried to get across yesterday is that members of the public who obey the rules shouldn’t feel guilt.
“They should feel pride at knowing that what they did saved the lives of people that they will probably never meet.”
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