Johnson swiftly said he regretted the editorial, but Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi asked David Cameron to demand a proper apology from Johnson.
He won praise today from the CBI and George Osborne's Evening Standard, which said in an editorial: "the Labour leader has, with the smallest of nudges, manoeuvred himself into a more pro-business, pro-free trade European policy than the Tory government".
Ros Campbell Leeds In your editorial on the Labour leadership (25 July), you argue for fundamental change, not wishlists and platitudes.
The Daily Telegraph in an editorial says the Labour reshuffle shows that the party is moving to the left.
A thunderous Mail editorial also attacked Labour hypocrisy for claiming that Michael Howard was "playing the race card" in the last election, and gleefully noting that "now the chickens are coming home to roost... what fertile territory this offers for the poisonous message of the BNP".
17 February - "Of all the political sins, hypocrisy is worst - especially for Labour"; Editorial, page 24; 1,181 words.
The "links to the IRA" we've heard so much about refer to his former membership of the editorial board of Labour Briefing, a left-wing magazine which made a tasteless joke about the Brighton bombing – big up The Sun for policing good taste.
As one Marxism Today editorial put it, the Labour party and the trade unions were "profoundly wedded to the past, to 1945, to the old social-democratic order … backward-looking, conservative, bereft of new ideas and out of time".
Gisela Stuart MP Labour, Birmingham Edgbaston Your otherwise perceptive editorial (21 July) is wrong to say: "Labour backbenchers, including those on the left, have got too used to taking their cue on economic policy from Mr Brown".
The future of work is the elephant in the room in the Labour leadership contest (Editorial, 25 July).
