Boris Johnson should take a paternity test for Brexit, Labour’s Emily Thornberry jokes in jab at his private life
Emily Thornberry said Boris should go on Jeremy Kyle to prove he's responsible for Brexit
BORIS JOHNSON was today ridiculed over his personal life as his Labour shadow joked he should take a paternity test to prove he is responsible for Brexit.
Emily Thornberry made a pointed reference to reports that the Foreign Secretary has fathered a love child as she mocked him from the stage at Labour’s party conference in Brighton.
She said that he should have to go on Jeremy Kyle to prove his “paternity” of the Leave campaign in last year’s EU referendum.
Ms Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, said: “Please let’s just take a second to sympathise with poor old Boris. Oh come on, just a second. He’s not been happy lately.
“Apparently he's sick of being blamed for the way Brexit is going and all the broken promises of the Leave campaign.
“I'm sorry, Conference? I'm sorry? Who does he think made all those promises? Who does he think was in charge of the Leave campaign?
“I know Boris doesn’t like paternity tests, but we might need one for Brexit. We need to get him in a studio with Jeremy Kyle.
“‘Yes, I'm sorry, Mr Johnson, we've got the results back - it looks like this one is yours.
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“‘It must have been that wild night out you had with Michael Gove. I've calculated your maintenance payments… - that’ll be £350million a week.’”
Ms Thornberry also compared Donald Trump to a “rogue dictator” and suggested Labour would not seek to strike a trade deal with the US.
She said: “What makes it even worse is to see this Tory government and this Tory Prime Minister pathetically going along with it all walking hand-in-hand with Trump at the White House, supine, sycophantic and spineless.
“And why? All in the vain hope that Trump will ride to the rescue after Brexit with some fantasy free-trade deal.”
David Lammy also blasted Boris as he spoke in Brighton today, saying: “We must stand up to it because it is the same nasty politics that we saw in the 1920s and 30s and we see where it led to.”
The jabs at Boris comes after he entered the Brexit debate by setting out his vision for post-EU Britain in a challenge to Theresa May - only to back down within days.