Boris Johnson came under attack from an Oldham lady as he took questions from callers on LBC this morning.
Calling the Nick Ferrari show he asked the Prime Minister:
“I am a single mother. I don’t appreciate what you have said about single mothers, and by implication my family. Why are you happy to criticise people like me, when you refuse to discuss your family?
Ruth was referring to controversial remarks that had been unearthed from a column in the Spectator that Johnston wrote in 1995 when he had written that the working classes were likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless” and on the children of single mothers being “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate”.
The Prime Minister refused to apologise for the comments saying that they were 25-year-old quotations culled from articles written before I was even in politics.
During the hour long interview Johnston also said that he would simply walk out’ of trade deal negotiations with the US if they insisted that the NHS was on the table.
He added, ‘if any government was mad enough to go down that route, they would never be elected’ and accused Labour of making a ‘distraction’ over the issue.
Meanwhile The BBC has ‘refused the Conservatives’ offer to the put the prime minister on the Andrew Marr programme until he agrees a date for Andrew Neil’
