UK PM facing new calls to resign over parties row

Key Facts

• Media caption, Tobias Ellwood MP says the Conservatives "require a new leader" Mr Ellwood, who chairs the Commons Defence Committee, called on the PM to "cut to the chase, to call a vote of confidence in himself" and said the party was on a "glide path to a very, very dark place".
• SAVILE REMARKS ROW Mr Johnson is also facing calls to withdraw a claim he made in the Sue Gray debate on Monday that Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions (DPP).
• Tobias Ellwood and other Conservatives have criticised the PM for these comments, with Mr Ellwood suggesting it was one of the reasons he decided to submit a letter of no confidence in him.
• The CPS has said Sir Keir was not the reviewing lawyer on the case, and there is no mention of his involvement in a 2013 review into the case.

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