Boris Johnsons' father apologises for comment about Irish people shooting each other

Former MEP Stanley Johnson, father to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has “apologised profusely” for his previous comments about the Irish shooting each other.

In October 2018 he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that irrespective of the solution for the border on the island of Ireland after Brexit “if the Irish people want to shoot each other, they will shoot each other".