JO JOHNSON is unfit for ministerial office, Labour suggested today after an official watchdog issued a damning verdict on the former universities minister’s appointment of the toxic Toby Young to a new education body.

And Mr Johnson’s successor as universities minister, Sam Gyimah, caved in to pressure and said the government would re-examine its relationship with Mr Young’s lobby group.

The right-wing journalist and free-school founder resigned from the board of the Office for Students after just a few days in post last month. He had come under fire for a series of misogynistic and homophobic comments and for advocating “progressive eugenics.”