Don’t trust lothario Boris says Red Ken
KEN Livingstone has warned that voters should think about Boris Johnson ‘being alone with their daughters’ before voting for Brexit.
The Left-winger made his extraordinary attack on the Mayor of London as he warned that Mr Johnson would take over Number 10 if the UK votes to quit the EU.
Mr Livingstone, who was toppled from City Hall by Mr Johnson in 2008, has had a colourful private life himself, fathering five children by three women.
Explaining why Mr Johnson would be a shoo-in for Prime Minister if Britain votes to leave the EU in the June 23 referendum, Mr Livingstone said: ‘Cameron would be gone within days and Boris would be our Prime Minister.
‘He has secured a huge block of support amongst the Tory Party members who want to leave.’
In remarks that will be gleefully seized on by supporters of the Out team, Mr Livingstone also told the Hampstead and Highgate Express newspaper that he would leave the country if Britain voted to leave the EU, declaring: ‘I would personally start thinking about emigrating to somewhere the economy is not going to collapse.’
He added that what the public should fear most is ‘Boris being alone with their daughters’.
The attack shows that Mr Livingstone has abandoned a pledge he made never to exploit his opponent’s private life. His own personal life is complex enough. Two of his mistresses were pregnant at the same time, giving birth at the same hospital within weeks of each other in 1992.
Mr Livingstone already had a daughter who was born in 1990. Throughout this time he was living with another woman, Kate Allen, former Amnesty International director.
A decade later he went on to have a son, Thomas, and daughter, Mia – in 2002 and 2004 – with journalist Emma Beal, whom he married in 2009.
He only revealed he was father to two of his daughters in an autobiography in 2011, disclosing how he had ‘agreed to have a baby’ with two of his close friends in the 1990s.
Mr Johnson has had one illegitimate child. He was also exposed as having an affair with a journalist. He remains with his wife, the lawyer Marina Wheeler.
In the newspaper interview Mr Livingstone also denied that there was any antiSemitism in the Labour party, despite the recent suspensions of activists.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has demanded that Jeremy Corbyn takes tougher action against anti-Semitism in its ranks.
But Mr Livingstone said: ‘I have never heard anyone in the party say something anti-Semitic in nearly 50 years.’
‘Worry about your daughters’