U.K. leader Boris Johnson is facing backlash over charged language. Some say he's stoking the kind of anger that results in death threats to lawmakers.
Angry and despairing British lawmakers accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday of whipping up violence and division with his charged language about opponents of Brexit, and the speaker of the House of Commons pleaded for an end to the “toxic” atmosphere.
Johnson took power two months ago with a “do-or-die” promise that Britain would leave the EU on the scheduled date of Oct. 31, with or without a separation agreement outlining commercial relations with the Continent. His foes are determined to avoid a no-deal exit, which economists say would disrupt trade with the EU and plunge Britain into recession.
On Thursday, the prime minister said that “tempers need to come down and people need to come together,” but he offered no apology and defended his use of the term “Surrender Bill.” Ellie Cooper, daughter of prominent Labor legislator Yvette Cooper, said on Twitter that, since Cox’s slaying, she had been “scared every single day” that the same thing might happen to her mother.
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