Police chiefs condemn PM for using officers as backdrop to Brexit 'rant'

Boris Johnson has said he would “rather be dead in a ditch” than agree to extend Brexit, while ducking questions on whether he would resign if it was forced on him, in a sometimes rambling speech in West Yorkshire.Johnson’s speech and subsequent media question-and-answer session at a police training college began late, appeared to be largely unscripted, and resulted in a police officer standing behind him falling ill after standing in the sun for more than an hour.He vowed not