A letter box in Hadleigh has been dressed up to look like a woman wearing a niqab in support of Boris Johnson.

The former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has attracted fierce criticism for his description of Muslim women in face-covering veils as looking like letter-boxes or bank robbers.

There have now been calls for him to apologise and some MPs and community leaders have called for him to be sacked over the offensive remarks.

A member of the Hadleigh community has now lent its support to Mr Johnson by dressing up a post box in a black bin liner in an attempt to make it look like a woman wearing a niqab.

The matter has split the Conservative government, with some supporting him and others unhappy by the comments he had made.

Mr Johnson was subjected on Saturday to a brutal attack by a former close aide to David Cameron, Lord (Andrew) Cooper, who accused him of "casual racism" and "courting of fascism".

"He will advocate literally anything to play to the crowd of the moment," said the Tory peer. "His career is a saga of moral emptiness and lies; pathetic, weak and needy; the opposite of strong."

But Mr Bridgen told the Sunday Express: "If Boris is suspended it will be open warfare in the Conservative Party.

"If Theresa May dares engineer a leadership contest while Boris is suspended it will be World War Three."