There will be “effectively a diplomatic boycott” of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday, as he said that there are no plans for any ministers to attend the games. But the prime minister stopped short of officially calling it a diplomatic boycott, maintaining that the government doesn’t support sporting boycotts. During Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament, Johnson was urged to join the United States and a number of other countries in boycotting the controversial event over the Chinese communist regime’s notorious human rights record. Responding to the request by Scottish National Party MP Kirsten Oswald, Johnson said: “As I said before, we do not support sporting boycotts, but there are no plans for ministers to attend the Winter Olympics.” Begged to go further and “give a lead for human rights” by declaring a boycott, the prime minister told former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith “there will …