There has rightly been condemnation of Boris Johnson's accusation that Sir Keir personally allowed Jimmy Savile to continue his paedophile activities, but so far the broadcast media at least have paid little attention to the first part of the PM's slur, that as DPP, Sir Keir spent all his time prosecuting journalists. Was this perhaps a Putin-like attempt in the dying days of the Brown government to silence political critics and whistle-blowers?
It turns out not to be so. The "journalists" the DPP went after, and not before time, were the phone-hackers who scraped confidential data on celebs and ordinary folk alike. Wikipedia quotes a Commons committee as estimating that over 12,000 people were affected.
Of course, most of the journals implicated were anti-Labour at the time.
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