“Where most of us were watching this and seeing a tragedy unfolding before our eyes, instead of seeing a tragedy, Boris Johnson saw an opportunity, and he went on the offensive."
Conservative and Brexit Party chicken out of TV debate on the other issues that aren’t Brexit
By Antony Lerman
The worst of the cuts were inflicted in the Metropolitan Police during Boris Johnson’s term as Mayor of London.
The religious leader was beaten in Stamford Hill, north London, on Friday by two men who shouted ‘Kill the Jews’.
The rabbi was in the UK for a family wedding when he was left bleeding in an anti-Semitic attack in north London.
Boris Johnson may have been glad to swerve another debate when Plaid Cymru's Adam Price said that as gay man he was profoundly offended by Boris Johnson referring to "bum boys in tank tops" and he was unfit for public office.
The PM, meanwhile, spoke of his anger at the attack, and said it was ‘absolutely clear that we can’t carry on with the failed approaches of the past’.
He was convicted of terror offences in 2012.