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Friday, 10 August 2018

Former Tory leader defends Boris Johnson over burqa comments

Iain Duncan Smith says party inquiry should not be launched as comments were free speech

Former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith has said that the party’s internal disciplinary system should not be used “to shut down” Boris Johnson after his controversial comments about fully veiled Muslim women.

The MP voiced unhappiness that Johnson had been referred to the party’s internal disciplinary process on Thursday, and argued that the former foreign secretary had a right to free speech, even if people took offence at his remarks.

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