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Boris Johnson booted out by wife Marina after she accused him of cheating AGAIN
BORIS Johnson has split with his long-suffering wife Marina after she accused him of cheating on her again.
The Sun can reveal the ex-Foreign Secretary and his high-flying lawyer wife, both 54, are now living apart and no longer socialise as a couple.
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The Johnsons’ 25-year marriage has been rocked previously by his flings with other women.
Boris’ daughter has claimed wife Marina “will never take him back”.
Fashion journalist Lara, 25, is understood to have been overheard exploding with rage at her philandering dad.
She is said to have told pals at a party he “is a selfish bastard”.
And she insisted to one friend: “Mum is finished with him. She will never take him back now.”
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Sources close to the ex-Foreign Secretary and his high-flying lawyer wife say Marina, 54, booted out Boris over fresh allegations he had been seeing another woman.
The two now live apart and no longer socialise as a couple.
The circumstances of the split are likely to deal a fresh blow to 54-year-old Boris’s ambitions of becoming Conservative leader.
She has thrown him out twice before — first in 2004 over his four-year affair with the writer Petronella Wyatt, and then again in 2010 when he was suspected of having a lovechild with art consultant Helen Macintyre.
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But both times Marina — mum to Lara and Boris’s other three children Milo Arthur, 23, Cassia Peaches, 21, and Theodore Apollo, 19 — eventually took him back.
Rumours of a split began to swirl after Marina failed to attend a family party for Cassia’s birthday.
The Johnsons are understood to have parted around the time they left the grace and favour mansion at Carlton Gardens last month following Boris’s resignation as Foreign Secretary.
One of the politician’s closest friends said: ‘They were fine last Christmas but there’s been strain since then.
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“I don’t think being in the Foreign Office helped — all that travel. Marina wasn’t at their daughter Cassia’s birthday party this week. In fact, she has not been evident for a while.
“She’s been writing a book and that probably hasn’t helped either because she is no longer doing as many cases as a barrister.
“And yet I know they will always be incredibly close.
“I wouldn’t say their marriage is over until there’s a divorce. He doesn’t do anything politically without consulting her. She’s highly intelligent and very pro-Brexit.”
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Another friend said: “He hates the children knowing this stuff but there’s no getting around the fact that his living arrangements have changed. It’s all very painful to watch.”
In a sign that Lara’s anger with Boris may recently have cooled, he took his four children to his father Stanley’s holiday villa on Greece’s Pelion peninsula last week — without Marina.
He was snapped by locals relaxing with one of the children in a local tavern and at the airport with son Milo.
Earlier this year, rumours had circulated in Westminster that Boris had started to give his police protection officers the slip for illicit liaisons while he was Foreign Secretary.
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He would disappear off their radar for an hour or two, causing concern among officials.
The split also means Boris has lost in Marina one of his closest political confidantes and advisers.
He credited her as a key influence in his long-agonised decision to eventually back Brexit in the run-up to 2016’s EU referendum.
Marina, who wed Boris in 1994, is a senior human rights lawyer and qualified as a QC in 2016. Boris has long coveted the Tory leadership and is the prime candidate for the party’s hard Brexiteers.
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The former London mayor has been pushed by some furious Tory MPs to challenge Mrs May as early as this Autumn for the nation’s top job to dump her Chequers plan for a softer Brexit.
But many “blue rinse” Tory grassroots members have traditional views on marriage and will be put off by the latest trouble.
Allies of Mr Johnson will insist his philandering has been well known among party members for years and is “written into his price”.
Neither of his previous infidelity scandals stopped him getting elected in 2008 as London mayor and re-elected in 2012.
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Before the marriage split news emerged last night, Mr Johnson extended his lead as Tory members’ preferred next party leader.
A regular poll on the ConservativeHome website revealed he now has the backing of 35 per cent of members and holds a 20-point lead over Home Secretary Sajid Javid in second place.
Before Boris resigned in July, he was languishing way behind Mr Javid in fourth place. Boris was seen emerging from lunch in Westminster yesterday with Tory Chief Whip Julian Smith.
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IT has long been the subject of dinner party gossip for friends of Boris Johnson — just how many affairs has he had? And how on earth does he do it?
Boris wed first wife Allegra Mostyn-Owen in 1987 after they met at Oxford, but split when he had an affair with Marina Wheeler.
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She married him in 1993 and first caught him out over his relationship with society writer Petronella Wyatt.
He had a four-year affair with “Petsy”, daughter of the late Labour grandee Lord Wyatt, while he was editor of The Spectator and she was one of his columnists.
Petronella later told how she had an abortion and suffered a miscarriage.
Boris described reports of their affair as an “inverted pyramid of piffle”.
But he was forced to quit as shadow arts minister and party vice-chairman in 2004 by then-Tory leader Michael Howard for failing to tell the whole truth about the affair.
Howard’s officials said the issue was one of “personal morality”.
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Furious Marina threw him out of their home in Highgate, North London, but later took him back.
However, his affairs did not end there. Pals said the Petsy affair overlapped with his romance with Anna Fazackerley, a journalist on the Times Educational Supplement.
The pair were said to have had sex while he was a junior shadow education minister in 2005. On one occasion Boris got off a flight home from China to hook up with Ms Fazackerley in Paris.
Boris rebuilt his political career by running successfully for Mayor of London in 2008. But his unlikely love life blew up again when he fathered a lovechild with arts consultant Helen Macintyre in 2009.
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Marina chucked him out again – only to take him back once more. Full details of the affair emerged in court after Ms Macintyre lost a three-year legal battle to stop the Press naming Boris as the father of her daughter Stephanie.
Lawyers for the Daily Mail argued it was in the public interest because it “went to the issue of recklessness and whether on that account he was fit for public office”.
The Appeal Court also heard in 2013 that Ms Macintyre’s daughter was alleged to be the second child conceived as a result of Boris’s extra-marital affairs.
One ex described his romancing style as “persistent”. She said: “He made himself so endearing and amusing. I didn’t know of his reputation and to look at him you would never imagine he was a womaniser.
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“But I do recall that he became very persistent in his attentions and, you know, eventually one thing led to another. He relies entirely on his personality, especially his wit and that bumbling character that he’s developed and, well, it does seem to be still working, doesn’t it?
“Any sensible girl should stay away from him. You’ll get the cheery persistence, then the conquest, but when he’s bored he won’t care about you in the slightest. He always goes back to Marina.”
His second wife has always put up with her husband’s philandering. One friend has said: “She sees it as a childish side of his personality which one day he’ll grow out of.”
The identity of Boris’s latest alleged mistress remains unknown. But family members have made it clear it is probably one affair too many for Marina.
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