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The United Kingdom's former Foreign Minister Boris Johnson has accused of racism. He a number of comments about women the burka while writing in the British newspaper 'The Telegraph'. Mr Johnson said women who burkas "look like letter boxes". He also said: "If a female student up at school or at a university lecture like a bank robber," he would ask her to it so that he "could talk to her properly". Johnson was an article about the recent full-face veil ban in Denmark. In the article, Mr Johnson said full-face veils should not banned in the UK, but said women who wear a burka " absolutely ridiculous".

The UK's Prime Minister Theresa May has Mr Johnson to for his comments. She said: "I do think that we all to be very careful about the language and terms we use, and some of the terms Boris used describing people's appearance obviously offended." Another senior British politician has Mr Johnson to . Many other politicians said Johnson's comments Islamophobic and were a hate crime. They say he knew his comments would many Muslims and others in the UK. Mr Johnson was London's mayor for eight years and the UK Foreign Minister for two years and so thousands of experiences with Muslim people.