LONDON, (Reuters) – After protestors hounded Keir Sterner in Britain’s Labour leadership, Boris Johnson felt pressured on Tuesday to withdraw a claim that Johnson’s opposition leader failed to bring charges against one of Britain’s most notorious child sex abusers.

Johnson won the 2019 election by a wide margin. Now he is in crisis after several scandals, including reports that Johnson and his staff were present at Downing Street parties during COVID lockdowns.

Johnson apologized before the Parliament on Jan. 31, but falsely stated that Starmer hadn’t prosecuted Jimmy Savile (a TV legend who sexually abused hundreds upon children) during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions.

Starmer was confronted Monday by protesters who attacked him following an anti-COVID vaccine demonstration.

Some protesters were heard shouting, “Traitor!” before being taken into a car by police officers. Some of the protesters can be heard shouting “Traitor!” and “Were your protecting Jimmy Savile?” at him.

Julian Smith, a Conservative lawmaker said that it was crucial for the security of his democracy and freedom to withdraw all false Savile remarks made against him.

Roger Gale (Conservative lawmaker) said that Starmer’s treatment was disgraceful.

Gale explained that Gale was afraid this resulted from the Chamber’s careless language use.

Johnson is at risk of further losing his authority in the battle to reform Downing Street and to defend himself against claims by opposition parties that Johnson is not fit to govern.

Johnson was disgraced for harassing Starmer, and Opposition legislators called upon him to apologize.

Savile, an 84-year-old BBC TV and radio host, was never charged despite several police investigations. It was discovered that he had been a victim of abuse, mostly children, after his death. An 8-year old boy was his youngest victim.

POLITICS: POISON

Johnson supporters stated that, while protesters’ behavior was unacceptable, they were not going to place blame on Johnson.

Jo Cox’s husband, Jo, was stabbed to death by Starmer just days before 2016 Brexit. He said that although Starmer had been harassed, poisoning politics led to unintended consequences.

Brendan Cox, BBC radio host said that “if you inject poison into politics it has a whole bunch of unintended consequences.”

When you make allegations about people supporting paedophiles and not taking action against them, there is a lot of emotion.

Johnson stated that Johnson was clarifying his comments on February 3, stating that he did not mean to suggest Starmer had failed to bring an end to the case against one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders.

Chris Philp, Britain’s minister of technology and digital economy, stated to Sky that “I don’t believe you can point at what the prime minister spoke as the cause of it – you certainly can’t blame him.”

Philp claimed that Philp did not believe the harassment and intimidation of opposition leaders was inexcusable.

Johnson’s explanation did not satisfy Munira mirza, his policy head, who has worked alongside him for fourteen years. She quit her job last Wednesday. Rishi Sunak from Finance Ministry also denied making such remarks.