Keir Starmer has today retracted his claims that Boris Johnson criticised the BBC over its Ukraine coverage.
The Labour leader corrected his remarks ahead of the Commons debate on whether the Prime Minister should be referred to the Privileges Committee.
It comes after a Tory minister this morning demanded Mr Starmer apologise for “misleading Parliament” - while refusing to say Mr Johnson should do the same.
Nadhim Zahawi claimed it would be “playing politics” to refer the Prime Minister to the Privileges Committee, to decide whether he lied to MPs by denying all knowledge of Partygate.
Mr Starmer told MPs: "The Prime Minister's comments on Tuesday night to his backbenchers were briefed to journalists by a spokesperson.
"Those comments were reasonably interpreted by several media outlets including the Daily Telegraph as being criticisms of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the BBC for their comments and coverage of Ukraine.
"Government ministers were asked on broadcasts around just the morning and they didn't seek to correct that interpretation.
"But Mr. Speaker since the government has corrected the record and said the Prime Minister's comments only referred to the ArchBishop and not the BBC."
Senior Tory MP Sir Edward Leigh welcomed the fact that Mr Starmer was "big-hearted" enough to correct the record.
But he claimed MPs may often "unwittingly mislead the house", urging colleagues to avoid calling each other 'liars'.
Independent fact-checking organisation Full Fact has demanded Mr Starmer to go further and correct the the "assumption" that families would be an average of £2,620 worse off this year under the Conservatives.
Full Fact has also urged the PM to correct the record after making a number of inaccurate statements to the House, claiming employment is going up when it is actually falling.
