Johnson Blasted After Comparing Brexit & The War

Blackpool Jeer PM in conference jibe

- Ben Glaze

Boris Johnson yesterday faced calls to apologise for comparing Ukraine's war against Russian invaders to Britons voting for Brexit.

The Prime Minister told the Tory spring conference in Blackpool it was the "instinct of the people of this country, like the people of Ukraine, to choose freedom", with the Brexit vote a "famous recent example".

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: "It is utterly distasteful and insulting to compare the fight for freedom and the aggression of the Russian state to the decision to leave the European Union.