Boris Johnson really hates questions about his private life. When it is quite as um ... complicated as his, perhaps that is no surprise. Practising for a mayoral debate in 2008, an aide pretending to be Ken Livingstone told him: “You’ve lied to your employers, you’ve lied to the country, you’ve lied to your wife.” To which Johnson responded by knocking over the podium and bellowing: “Just f*** off.”He managed to keep his cool rather better during interviews this morning. Appearing on BBC Breakfast he was inevitably asked about the groping allegations that have dogged this conference. “I have said pretty much all I have to say on all those things.”But he went on to suggest that the…

Source: The Times October 01, 2019 08:03 UTC