Pressure on Boris Johnson increasing from Tory party over his Libya 'dead bodies' comment

The UK's Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said: "There comes a time when the buffoonery needs to stop."

Boris Johnson has been slapped down by a senior Cabinet colleague after saying a Libyan city could become the next Dubai once it had cleared the dead bodies away.

The British Foreign Secretary is facing calls for his sacking over the comments on the fringes of the Conservative conference.