The Guardian view on language in politics: playing with fire | Editorial

With his contemptuous dismissal of colleagues’ fears of violence, the prime minister has sunk to a new lowThe risk that politicians, other public figures or ordinary people taking part in political activities could be physically attacked is the most urgent but not the only reason to be alarmed by the divisive stance adopted by the prime minister following the supreme court ruling against him. With every contemptuous act or incendiary choice of words, Boris Johnson inflicts further damage o