BORIS Johnson hit out at calls to hand back the Elgin Marbles to Greece and at the removal of allegedly terms from Roald Dahl's offensive books as he expressed his "irritation at wokeness".
He claimed "people should be vigilant about freedom of speech", and said returning the Parthenon sculptures would leave a "huge gap" in the British Museum's ability to explain world history.
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