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CHEATING BORIS’S PM BID Johnson leadership plot... as he’s linked to 3 women
CHEATING Boris Johnson is set to challenge for the Tory leadership despite being linked to three women.
Johnson’s long-suffering wife is divorcing him after yet another affair.
Many consider him unfit to be Prime Minister with his history of cheating.
But he is said to be “clearing the decks” ready to challenge Theresa May.
SHAMELESS Boris Johnson is set to step up his plot to oust Theresa May despite being exposed as a serial love cheat.
The ex-Foreign Secretary is braced for further revelations about his private life with three women linked to him by Westminster insiders.
Boris and wife Marina Wheeler, with whom he has four children, yesterday announced they are divorcing after 25 years in a move dubbed “Borexit” by Twitter wags.
Their marriage, which had survived his previous flings, finally ended after respected barrister Ms Wheeler accused him of cheating again.
Daughter Lara, 25, a fashion journalist, is reported to have said her mother “will never take him back”.
Two of the women, who have never previously been linked to Mr Johnson, have worked for Theresa May.
The third worked for David Cameron, her predecessor at No10. But Mr Johnson is understood to have told friends he has no intention of retreating from his bid to topple the Prime Minister over Brexit.
One Tory MP told the Mirror the developments could wreck his leadership chances, adding: “If he challenges Theresa May now, it could finish him.”
But others suggested Mr Johnson was in the process of a “damage limitation exercise” and wanted to “clear the decks” so his affairs could not be used against him in any future leadership contest. A second Tory MP described it as “shovelling the s**t out of the way for the leadership bid”. Mr Johnson is ploughing ahead with plans to address a 1,000strong rally of fellow eurosceptics on the fringes of the Tory conference in Birmingham from the end of the month. It threatens to overshadow Mrs May’s efforts to rally activists behind her Chequers plan for Brexit – which Boris slated as a disaster in his regular column in the Daily Telegraph this week.
A third Tory MP said of the divorce: “I believe it is in Boris’s interests to get this news out there now so it is not used by his enemies in the height of a leadership contest.
“This means that if and when he goes for the top job, it will be old news and cannot harm him.”
But family friends disputed this, saying the couple had been preparing to make the announcement anyway ahead of court papers being made
public shortly. Mr Johnson and Ms Wheeler, both 54, issued a joint statement yesterday, hours after reports they were no longer living together.
In it they said their separation occurred “several months ago”.
They added: “After 25 years of marriage, we decided it was in our best interests to separate. We have subsequently agreed to divorce and that process is under way.”
They were understood to have separated while he was living as Foreign Secretary in his grace-andfavour apartment in Central London.
The Mirror told how Mr Johnson refused to move out of the £20million 1 Carlton Gardens despite quitting his Cabinet role in July in protest at the Mrs May’s Chequers plan for future relations with the EU.
He eventually left three weeks later and Ms Wheeler, daughter of BBC journalist Charles Wheeler, was snapped helping him move out.
Claims about Boris’s affairs first emerged in 2004 when, as editor of The Spectator, he was said to have been hiding a fouryear romance with columnist Petronella Wyatt, 50. Her mother claimed Petronella had become pregnant and had an abortion. He later admitted the fling. ThenTory leader Michael Howard sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet for having lied about it. In 2006 it was reported he had been romancing journalist Anna Fazackerley. But his Oxford pal David Cameron, who was by then Tory leader, said it was a private matter and not a sacking offence. In 2009 Mr Johnson fathered a child with arts consultant Helen Macintyre, who applied for a High Court injunction to prevent the child’s paternity being disclosed.
Mr Johnson was a childhood friend of Ms Wheeler when they were pupils at the European School in Brussels.
They wed in 1993, the year he divorced first wife Allegra MostynOwen after six years’ marriage.
In 2016, after Mr Cameron quit, Boris ruled himself out of the race to replace him after his fellow Brexit campaigner Michael Gove announced he would run. But the former Mayor of London shamelessly continues to harbour leadership ambitions.
Tory minister Margot James said: “It’s infuriating how Boris Johnson is continuously in the news.
“The PM has a really difficult job to get the best possible deal for this country out of the EU negotiations.
“I’m frankly fed up with talking about Boris Johnson.”