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Johnson urged to explain how aide with disturbing views on race and class was hired
Labour chairman Ian Lavery pointed out that when Johnson was editor of the Spectator, it had published an article that claimed: “Orientals … have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the other pole."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson with his new Cabinet last week

LABOUR has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask whether he agrees with his former aide’s “disturbing” views on race and forcing contraception on working-class people.

The party called for the government to explain how Andrew Sabisky, who resigned this week after his “offensive” writings were discovered online, was hired as a Downing Street special adviser.

In the letter to Mr Johnson, Labour chairman Ian Lavery wrote: “Andrew Sabisky has thankfully left your government.

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