No 10 rebukes Boris Johnson over Sirte 'dead bodies' comment

Downing Street source says comment was not ‘an appropriate choice of words’, after calls for foreign secretary to be sacked

Downing Street has rebuked Boris Johnson for saying a war-torn Libyan city only had to “clear the dead bodies away” to become a world-class tourist destination, after Theresa May faced calls from her own MPs to sack him.

A senior Downing Street source said it was a matter for Johnson as to whether he apologised, but added: “We did not feel it was an appropriate choice of words.”

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