Sajid Javid, the health secretary, has this morning become the second cabinet minister to dissociate himself from the prime minister’s Jimmy Savile remark about the Labour leader.
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Echoing the line taken by Rishi Sunak, Javid said: 'Keir Starmer, when he was running the DPP, did a good job and he should be respected for it.'

On Monday, Johnson made a false accusation that the Labour leader had failed to prosecute the paedophile, sexual predator and TV personality during his time running the Crown Prosecution Service

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