Boris Johnson denies attacking BBC coverage of Russia’s war with Ukraine

Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister’s Questions at the Houses of Parliament (PA)

Boris Johnson denied attacking the BBC over its coverage of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine as he was accused of slandering the broadcaster’s journalists who are risking their lives to report the conflict.

At a private meeting of Tory MPs, the British Prime Minister was said to have attacked the BBC and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby for criticising his Rwanda asylum plan, claiming they had been “less vociferous” about condemning Mr Putin.