https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/boris-johnson-refuses-apologise-racist-burka-comments-191129101017762.html
London, United Kingdom - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to offer an outright apology for Islamophobic comments he made in 2018, which led to a spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes.

He was responding to presenter Nick Ferrari, who asked whether Johnson was "sorry for the words of the offence" caused by a Daily Telegraph column in 2018 in which he wrote that the "burka is oppressive" and that Muslim women who wear the full veil look "like letter boxes" and bank robbers.