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Daily Mirror
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Seamus Duff

Boris Johnson weighs in on Jimmy Carr's Holocaust joke branding it ‘deeply disturbing’

The Prime Minister has voiced his concern over Jimmy Carr’s controversial joke about the deaths of members of the travelling community during the Holocaust branding the stand up’s comments as “deeply disturbing”.

Boris Johnson, 57, speaking via his official spokesperson, has stressed it is unacceptable to make light of the genocide performed by the Nazis last century which led to the murder of six million jews and as many as one million, or more, members of the travelling community.

Comedian Jimmy, 49, sparked furore when he joked about Nazi victims in his recent Netflix comedy special, His Dark Material.

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