BORIS JOHNSON’S racist and Islamophobic remarks should be enough to disqualify him from being prime minister, campaigners said today after his premiership was announced.

Anti-racism activists joined a vast number of politicians, trade union general secretaries and campaigners who have called for a general election after Mr Johnson was “elected” by just under 100,000 Conservative members.

They referred to his comments about veil-wearing Muslim women looking like “letterboxes” and “bankrobbers” and accused him of fuelling and legitimising Islamophobia.