Antisemitism, Islamophobia – and this is just the Brexit phoney war | Marina Hyde

Boris Johnson’s swipe at Muslim women has left both major parties in conflict with minorities. It all feels a bit ominous

Never less than up-to-the-minute, I have just read Boris Johnson’s 2004 novel Seventy Two Virgins. If you’re wondering if that title doubles as a description of its readership, you’re on the wrong track. It sold well, and the reader is duly lured in with the cover quote, promising “Johnson scores in his comic handling of these sensitive issues”.

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