Boris Johnson will not apologise for accusing Sir Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile, No 10 has said.
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New Bury South Labour MP Christian Wakeford, who dramatically defected from the Conservatives today, says his old party are 'trying to defend the indefensible - and they are doing so gladly'.
And PM Boris Johnson, he adds, is 'running out of road and running out of brass neck to hide behind'.
Mr Wakeford described his defection as 'the most difficult decision I have ever had to make'.
He referenced his comments with a list of recent Tory controversies, including free school meals, Universal Credit, the Dominic Cummings affair and so-called 'party-gate'.
Speaking to broadcasters today after sitting in his new opposition benches at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Wakeford said he was elected as a centrist and remained a centrist following his defection.
On whether there should now be a by-election in his Bury South constituency, he said: "I think it was quite clear that even the Prime Minister wasn't calling for a by-election today, and I think it's been quite clear that they [the Conservative Party] know they'd lose.
Mr Wakeford, who as a Tory MP backed a bill that could make by-elections mandatory for MPs who change political parties, told broadcasters: "I was elected as a moderate and as a centrist and I am still a moderate and a centrist.
"I'm just wearing a different rosette.
"I want to get on with the day-to-day job of representing the people who elected me as a centrist."
Mr Wakeford won Bury South, which had elected a Labour MP at every election since 1997, in 2019 - with a majority of just 402.
In his resignation letter to the Prime Minister, he told Boris Johnson 'both you and the Conservative Party as a whole have shown themselves incapable of offering the leadership and government this country deserves'.
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