Prime minister wrote for Spectator in defence of opponents of gay people joining military and claimed
police were ‘cowed’ by Mcpherson report
Boris Johnson defended those who opposed gay people joining the military and the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet being arrested, in the latest controversial comments unearthed from his time as a journalist.
In articles written when he was in his mid-30s, the prime minister also wrote that the police had been cowed by the Macpherson report – which found that the Metropolitan police were institutionally racist – and claimed that officers were too busy on “racial awareness programmes” to respond to crime reports.