Expect more diversionary moves to deflect attention from Johnson's problems
Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the Kent Oncology Centre at Maidstone Hospital in Kent
THE Prime Minister’s attack on the leader of the Opposition last week can be read as an ill-considered shaft made in the midst of a heated Commons exchange — or it can be understood as a carefully considered and rehearsed “dead cat” device to deflect the debate.
Or it can be seen as both.
Johnson claimed that Sir Keir Starmer, as director of public prosecutions, “used his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile.”
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