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5 June 2019updated 07 Jun 2021 5:21pm

Boris Johnson’s racist insults, dog whistles and slurs

By Media Mole

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 02: Boris Johnson speaks at a Conservative home fringe meeting on day three of the Conservative Party Conference on October 2, 2018 in Birmingham, England. The former Foreign Secretary makes his Brexit speech to the Conservative Home fringe meeting audience today. This is seen as a direct challenge to the Prime Minister's much maligned Chequers Deal. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Here are some of Boris Johnson’s most egregious and distasteful remarks. 

Islamophobic incidents in which Muslim women have been called “letter boxes” have risen since Johnson described women wearing the burqa as “letter boxes” and “bank robbers” in a Telegraph column last year.

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