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Sir Keir Starmer has apologised after reports from MPs that he confronted Boris Johnson during a heated row following prime minister’s questions.
Starmer is said to have taken exception when the prime minister highlighted a previous call by the Labour leader for Britain to remain a member of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). A Labour frontbencher denied having intervened to prevent a physical altercation.
In the Commons yesterday Johnson accused Starmer of having repeatedly called for the UK not to quit the EU body, and said that having remained part of the agency would have slowed the vaccination programme.
Several MPs have reported that Starmer challenged the prime minister at close quarters in the immediate aftermath of the session, which ended at around 12.45pm. Onlookers described him as maskless, “rattled” and “puce”, and said that he had accused Johnson of lying as they spoke at the entrance to the “Aye”