Boris Johnson has refused to apologise, this time for attacking Muslim women who wear the full-face veil. The former foreign secretary used his Telegraph column to explain why he opposes a ban on the niqab, which has been implemented in a growing number of European countries, but he also interspersed his copy with references to the women who wear them as looking like letter boxes and bank robbers.
Sources close to Johnson have said that it is “ridiculous that these issues are being attacked” and warns against falling into “the trap of shutting down the debates on these difficult issues”.
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