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Johnson’s lack of criticism at Trump’s racism confirms he’s unfit to govern UK

Boris Johnson seems to be in some doubt, so let’s be clear: Donald Trump telling non-white lawmakers to “go back” where they came from is racism.

And let’s be clear about Mr Johnson too: His reluctance to whimper a word of criticism about that vile bigotry confirms the Bullingdon buffoon is totally unfit to be Prime Minister.

At last night’s hustings, he did eventually join his limp rival Jeremy Hunt in saying gosh, well, maybe what the President said wasn’t so great. But neither he nor Mr Hunt would call it racist.

Mr Trump yesterday doubled down on his bigotry, telling the four congresswomen (all but one born in the US) he had attacked that they hated their country.

Mr Trump, whose mother was a Scottish immigrant and whose grandfather was born in Germany.

Mr Trump, whose father was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration.

Mr Trump, whose Make America White Again “birther” campaign in 2008 ­questioned whether Barack Obama (remember him?) was born in the USA.

Now Trump’s mini-me Mr Johnson sides with this loathsome oaf at every opportunity.

And the small sect that is the Tory membership will impose Mr Johnson on the country.

What should be clear then is just how much of a disaster his premiership is going to be.

Something wrong with society where families with working adults need food banks

Austerity Britain – where the school summer holidays mean a bumper time down at the foodbank.

With no free school meals for six weeks, families pressed into poverty by Conservative attacks on the welfare state are left desperate.

Volunteers predict record numbers this year.

We applaud them and those who donate but the growing demand shames the cruel Tories.

Only a Labour government will fix this.

Totally Stoked

World Cup winner and Mirror columnist Ben Stokes’s journey to cricketing hero encapsulates all that’s great about sport.

The situation looked hopeless but he dug in with inspirational grit and grabbed for glory.

His innings wasn’t bad, either.

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