Campaign group Tell MAMA said it received 38 reports of anti-Muslim incidents in the week after the now-PM compared veiled women to ‘letterboxes’ and ‘bank robbers’

There has been a “significant spike” in Islamophobic incidents following Boris Johnson’s comparison between women in burkas and letterboxes, according to an anti-racism group.

There has been a “significant spike” in Islamophobic incidents following Boris Johnson’s comparison between women in burkas and letterboxes, according to an anti-racism group.

Boris Johnson had said it was “absolutely ridiculous” women chose to “go around looking like letterboxes” in comments last year.

There was a “significant spike” in Islamophobic incidents in the wake of Boris Johnson’s comparison between women in burkas and letterboxes, according to an anti-racism organisation.

Tell MAMA said there was a 375% increase in anti-Muslim incidents from the week before Mr Johnson made the comments to the week after.

Tell MAMA said there was a 375% week-on-week increase after the Prime Minister compared women who wear a full face veil to “letterboxes” and “bank robbers” in a newspaper column.

Muslim people are turning the other cheek to verbal assaults rather than report them to police, it has been claimed in the wake of new figures that suggest religious bigotry has reduced in Dundee.

There was a “significant spike” in Islamophobic incidents in the wake of Boris Johnson’s comparison between women in burkas and letterboxes, according to an anti-racism organisation.

UK prime minister Boris Johnson was behind the largest spike in anti-Muslim hate crime in 2018 after he compared women wearing the veil to “bank robbers”, according to new figures released on Monday.