Boris Johnson has found himself in a spot of bother today over an article in the Telegraph. The former Foreign Secretary uses his column to say that he disagrees with the Danish government’s decision to ban burkas. However, he has been criticised for also saying that Muslim women wearing burkas ‘look like letter boxes’. A number of top Corbynistas have been quick to denounce him for trying to appeal to the hard-right:
Boris Johnson – currently favourite to be next Tory leader – knows he can get away with comparing niqab-wearing Muslim women to letter boxes because, as Tory Baroness Warsi puts it, Islamophobia is widespread in the Conservatives and goes "all the way up to the top". pic.twitter.com/dP2zy2txF7
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) August 6, 2018
Just imagine for one moment the sheer enormity of media fury if Jeremy Corbyn had just brazenly mocked the way Jewish people dressed.
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