‘Absurd and shameful’ Churchill monument at risk: British PM Johnson says UK anti-racism protests ‘hijacked by extremists’

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decried threats to the national monument honoring former UK leader Winston Churchill by “violent protestors,” in a barrage of tweets published on Friday.

Johnson credited Churchill with “saving this country – and the whole of Europe – from a fascist and racist tyranny,” but acknowledged that the former British prime minister had expressed unpalatable opinions “that were and are unacceptable.”

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