Foreign secretary ridicules Labour leader and questions his ability to deal with North Korea in first incursion into election campaignBoris Johnson has made his first intervention in the election campaign to accuse Jeremy Corbyn of being a security threat and not just a “mutton-headed old mugwump”. An insult only Boris Johnson would use Read moreJohnson used a combination of blunt and characteristically idiosyncratic language to ridicule Corbyn’s leadership credentials. He added: “They say to themselves: he may be a mutton-headed old mugwump, but he is probably harmless. Responding to the claim that Corbyn was a mugwump, John Healey, the shadow housing secretary, said: “First of all I had to look that up. I think this is Boris Johnson feeling left out of the election campaign and it is the sort of look-at-me name-calling that you would expect in an Eton playground.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2017 06:53 UTC