JOHNSON GAFFE
Downing Street has rebuked Boris Johnson over his latest gaffe, branding his comments about clearing bodies from a Libyan city inappropriate.
A Number 10 source said Prime Minister Theresa May would “echo” the public slapdown by her effective deputy Damian Green, who said the Foreign Secretary should have chosen his words more carefully. But the source said Mrs May now regards the matter as closed. Asked whether Mr Johnson should apologise, the source said: “That is a matter for him.”
Mr Johnson sparked outrage on Tuesday evening by telling a meeting on the fringe of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester that the city of Sirte could be like Dubai, if the Libyans could “clear the dead bodies away”.