Top Boris Johnson Aide Resigns Over Conspiracy Theory
Munira Mirza, one of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s top advisers, quit Thursday amid a row over a conspiracy theory the British leader spread.
Mirza stepped down after Johnson did not apologize over the use of a discredited claim, that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute pedophile Jimmy Savile.
She announced her resignation in an open letter published in the right-wing Spectator magazine, which Johnson used to edit.
Mirza wrote there was no fair or reasonable basis for the assertion that Starmer was personally responsible for allowing Savile to escape justice.
After Savile’s death in 2011, it was uncovered that he was believed to have sexually abused hundreds of children, including at children’s hospitals.
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