Ukip leader, 54, MONDAY says he and his lover aged 25 have split up They’re having WEDNESDAY dinner in London!
HENRY Bolton’s position as Ukip leader is under growing doubt after he was seen enjoying a cosy dinner with the ‘racist’ model he had dumped in an attempt to keep his job.
Mr Bolton, 54, yesterday admitted he was still in love with Jo Marney, as she described him as a ‘perfect gentleman’.
The Ukip leader said on Monday he had ditched his 25-year-old lover after it emerged she had sent racist text messages about Meghan Markle.
But on Wednesday night, they dined together at the National Liberal Club in Westminster, before travelling back to his home in Folkestone, Kent.
As they left the restaurant at 9.30pm, Mr Bolton told a reporter that Miss Marney had wanted to speak to him about death threats she had received.
The couple went back to his flat by train. Mr Bolton yesterday made public a receipt to show that Miss Marney had returned to her house in Maidstone by taxi at 11.50pm.
Mr Bolton said his romance with Miss Marney had made him ‘the happiest I have been in years’, and he would not rule out rekindling it.
Asked if he still loved her, he replied: ‘Yeah, absolutely.’ Miss Marney told the Kentish Gazette: ‘I don’t have a bad word ‘I still to say think about he’s Henry. the perfect gentleman.’
Ukip’s national executive committee will meet on Sunday to decide on Mr Bolton’s future, and may hold a vote of no confidence in his leadership. A string of party figures have called for him to resign, including MEP Bill Etheridge.
Mr Bolton yesterday posted a series of messages on Facebook, saying he would prevail in the face of an ‘organised coup’.
He wrote: ‘Prominent individuals both inside and outside the party have co- operated with Left-wing media to intentionally destabilise the party during this time and turn the members against lead groups Mr this Bolton doing that me. party I so left I will against was and his unveil.’ elected shall third interest continue wife to and meeting two Miss young Marney children at a after Ukip dinner last month. She was suspended from the party last Sunday after her racist texts to a friend were made public. Ukip was plunged into a fresh crisis this week as it was warned it faced ‘imminent bankruptcy’ unless it immediately started laying off staff and giving notice on its tenancies for office buildings. A group of senior party figures demanded radical cost-cutting to keep the party afloat, including ditching all mailouts to members. accounts Ukip’s show that most it recent was £380,630 in debt even before last year’s general election. The party’s MEPs, Stuart Agnew and Mr Etheridge, have drawn up a ‘proposal for transformation’ alongside its London party chairman Freddy Vacha, former leadership candidate Ben Walker and ex-parliamentary candidate Catherine Blaiklock. They warned that only ‘radical structural change and control of expenses’ will ‘save Ukip from going under’. In a damning assessment of the party’s current state, they wrote: ‘Ukip does not deserve to run anything. It is rightly perceived to be incompetent.’