Starmer backs Labour MP who was ejected from the Commons on Friday after saying PM had lied repeatedly

The Labour MP Dawn Butler was absolutely correct to call Boris Johnson a liar in the Commons, Keir Starmer has said, saying the prime minister was “the master of untruth and half truths”.

Butler was ejected from the chamber on Friday when she said Johnson had lied repeatedly to fellow parliamentarians and the country, and refused to withdraw the remark.

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