Boris Johnson Says Jeremy Corbyn Would Be a Threat to the U.K.’s Security

  • Foreign Secretary criticised for calling Corbyn ‘old mugwump’
  • Johnson: U.K. could join military strikes against Assad regime
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Jeremy Corbyn would be a threat to the U.K.’s security, Boris Johnson said as he put defense at the center of the election campaign, declaring Britain could join military action against Syria’s Assad regime.

In his first intervention in Theresa May’s re-election campaign, the foreign secretary said he feared voters might not understand the danger posed by a Labour government led by Corbyn.