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Johnson's racist and Islamophobic remarks make him unfit to be PM, anti-racists says
Boris Johnson speaks at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London after being announced as the new Conservative party leader and the unelected Prime Minister.
BORIS JOHNSON’S racist and Islamophobic remarks should be enough to disqualify him from being prime minister, campaigners said today after his premiership was announced.
Anti-racism activists joined a vast number of politicians, trade union general secretaries and campaigners who have called for a general election after Mr Johnson was “elected” by just under 100,000 Conservative members.
They referred to his comments about veil-wearing Muslim women looking like “letterboxes” and “bankrobbers” and accused him of fuelling and legitimising Islamophobia.
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