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Fury at Boris Johnson's 'Basil Fawlty' ramblings comparing Ukraine to Brexit

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    -94% Very Left

  • Politician Portrayal

    8% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : SNP Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: "Boris Johnson's comments comparing Ukraine's life-threatening situation with Brexit was crass and distasteful, and shows just how dangerously obsessed the Tories are with Brexit."
71% : Former Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, another leading critic of Brexit in Brussels, said the comparison was "insane".
69% : Boris Johnson has sparked outrage from Tories and Europe after comparing Ukraine 's fight against war crimes to Brits voting for Brexit.
63% : "Comparing the Ukrainian people's fight against Putin's tyranny to the British people voting for Brexit damages the standard of statecraft we were beginning to exhibit."
61% : "When the British people voted for Brexit in such large, large numbers, I don't believe it was because they were remotely hostile to foreigners.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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