Sunday shows round-up: Javid calls for ‘measured language’ after Boris’s ‘suicide vest’ comment

Sajid Javid: Boris Johnson should use ‘measured language’

Boris Johnson has been dominating the headlines today for a variety of reasons. The news that he and his wife Marina Wheeler are to divorce is juxtaposed alongside his comments in the Mail on Sunday that the government’s Brexit stance has ‘wrapped a suicide vest around the British constitution – and handed the detonator to Michel Barnier’. His remarks have prompted outrage in some circles, most notably from his former Foreign Office colleague Sir Alan Duncan. Andrew Marr asked Home Secretary Sajid Javid if this was the right way for Johnson to conduct himself:

When asked if he thought @BorisJohnson was islamophobic the Home Secretary @sajidjavid replied: “No, absolutely not.” #marr pic.twitter.com/Eo7GIHgMhX

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) September 9, 2018

AM: What do you make of the use of the term ‘suicide vest’ to describe the Prime Minister’s approach? A lot of your colleagues are absolutely furious about that.