Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday 8 Aug 2018

1. Burka row: May tells Johnson to apologise

Theresa May has called on Tory MP Boris Johnson to apologise for calling the burka and niqab “weird” and “ridiculous” in a newspaper article about proposals to ban face-covering veils in public places. Tory peer Lord Sheikh has urged the party to expel Johnson over the article in The Daily Telegraph, in which the former foreign secretary said that women wearing them look like “letterboxes” and “bank robbers” but argued against a ban.

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