Jeremy Corbyn has fired an extraordinary broadside against Boris Johnson, calling for him undermining our country "and" putting our citizens at risk. "
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Corbyn accuses him of having a "colonial throwback take on the world", and of repeatedly "letting our country down".
It is the mishandling of the "heartbreaking" case of Zaghari-Ratcliffe that persuaded Corbyn to call for his dismissal. His statement ends: "We've put up with Johnson embarrassing and undermining our country with his incompetence and colonial throwback views and putting our citizens at risk for long enough. It's time for him to go. "
The intervention places both May and Johnson under renewed pressure after 10 days in which the prime minister has been forced to dismiss defense secretary Sir Michael Fallon for settlement behavior, Priti Patel, for conducting a freelance aid policy in the Middle East without informing No 10 or the Foreign Office.
After a succession of scandals and crises, Johnson's future now looks increasingly in doubt as Tehran considers whether to increase Zaghari-Ratcliffe's five-year sentence imposed for plotting to undermine the Iranian state.
The Brexit secretary David Davis was due to defend Johnson on the Sunday with Niall Paterson program on Sky News. Asked whether Johnson is "unsackable", Davis replies: "Why would you want to sack him? He's a good foreign secretary. The thing to understand here - you've got a flurry at the moment of things happening in politics, but this happens to all government at some point or other. "
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 38-year-old project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has been in prison since her arrest in Tehran in April last year.
