What cheek! Nazi row Ken Livingstone calls for him to be kicked out

KEN Livingstone has called for Boris Johnson to be expelled from the Conservative Party over the burka row.

The former London mayor, who quit the Labour Party in May after being suspended for alleged anti-Semitism, said the former foreign secretary was ‘pandering’ to bigotry.

Two years ago Mr Livingstone sparked outrage when he said Adolf Hitler supported Zionism ‘before he went mad’.

He was also heavily criticised in 2005 after accusing a Jewish reporter of behaving ‘like a concentration camp guard’. Mr Johnson beat Mr Livingstone in both the 2008 and 2012 London mayoral elections.

In an interview with LBC, Mr Livingstone said: ‘We’ve had a real increase in Islamophobic incidents – very often a woman wearing a burka gets it ripped off their face.

‘Boris is pandering to that fear of Islam and bigotry.

‘We all know Boris one day is going to try and become the next leader of the Tory party and if he’s going to be trying to mobilise bigots in the Tory party behind him, that’s totally wrong. Again and again, he will say things that are completely wrong. He isn’t really a politician, he just wants to be a famous celebrity.

‘Frankly I think the Tory party should dump him.’

‘Trying to mobilise bigots’