British Sikh woman confronts Boris Johnson in gurdwara for promoting whisky

• Sarwar Alam
• 20 May, 2017

By: Sarwar Alam

UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson had a tough time on the election campaign trail when a British Sikh woman admonished him for talking about whisky during a stop at a gurdwara in the city of Bristol. Johnson, whose wife is of Sikh origin, was forced to apologise for raising the issue of high tariffs on Scotch whisky imports into India, which could be brought down if a free trade deal is struck between India and the UK post- Brexit. “He was simply making the point that a free trade deal with, for example, India could be huge for both sides,”…

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