Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson is to face investigation by an independent panel following complaints that his comments on the burka breached the Conservative Party’s code of conduct. It is understood that the process is being triggered automatically after the receipt of a number of complaints over the former foreign secretary’s comparison of Muslim women in face-covering veils […]

Boris Johnson has been asked to apologise for his remarks comparing women in burkas to “letter boxes”. We’ve been here before As recently as March, the political Timothy Lumsden was forced to eat humble pie after referring in the Commons to his then Labour opposite number Emily Thornberry as the “Lady Baroness whatever” – an […]

Boris Johnson has come under fire after saying that Muslim women wearing burkas “look like letter boxes” or bank robbers. The former foreign secretary came out against calls for a ban on the face-covering veils in public places, but described them as “absolutely ridiculous” and compared their wearers to rebellious teenagers. His comments, in response […]

The fearless Tory MP says the Foreign Secretary has lost all credibility writes TIM WALKER It exasperates Anna Soubry that Theresa May has found it necessary to invite her cabinet to Chequers this week to try to bang some heads together about how exactly Britain should go about exiting the European Union. ‘We had the […]

Free from the pressures that are silencing other MPs, the Conservative Party’s great europhile tells TIM WALKER about his meeting with Theresa May and why this is no time for despair. There would be no messing about if Ken Clarke were prime minister. Boris Johnson would have been sacked by now and the rest of […]

A fitting 48 times the hapless foreign secretary, currently backtracking from his bungled attempt to topple Theresa May, outraged with his thoughtless comments and ill-judged actions 1) During the London Riots of 2011 it took mayor Boris Johnson three days to return from holiday in Canada. He said: “I came as fast as I could.” […]