Although frankly, I doubt that proof of the suspected affair will make any difference whatsoever to the Brexit political math given that it was seven years ago, neither Johnson nor Arcuri have directly denied an affair, and Boris Johnson’s lack of marital fidelity over the years has not exactly been a secret:
The businesswoman at the centre of a storm about her links to Boris Johnson ‘bragged’ about having sex with him and proudly showed off what she called her ‘Boris bruises’, her former friend Milo Yiannopoulos has claimed.
Jennifer Arcuri’s alleged fling with Mr Johnson when he was Mayor of London was an ‘open secret’, according to Mr Yiannopoulos, a controversial right-wing activist who also worked on the London tech scene at the time.
Speaking to MailOnline, Mr Yiannopoulos claimed that Miss Arcuri had ‘loudly and proudly’ displayed evidence of the romance and said he had tried to warn her off it. He stressed she was not alleging the bruises were the result of any ‘anything abusive’, but instead were ‘trophies’ from ‘enthusiastic, consensual lovemaking’.
Yesterday Miss Arcuri repeatedly refused to deny a romance with Mr Johnson, who is facing a City Hall probe over alleged conflict of interest.
Then again, I have no doubt that the EU and the Remain forces in the UK will attempt to cite this as conclusive evidence that Britain should stay in the EU. Facts and reason have never had anything to do with their nonsensical arguments.
This comment appears to be the most common reaction: I still don’t care. Just get us out of the EU. And this is why no one cares who or what Boris does in his off-hours:
Boris Johnson effectively killed off hopes of a Brexit deal today after turning down a demand from Angela Merkel for Northern Ireland to stay in the customs union.
In a crunch moment for negotiations, the PM and the German Chancellor clashed brutally in an early morning phone call.
No10 sources said Mrs Merkel told the premier that the province must remain within the EU’s customs union indefinitely. But Mr Johnson retorted that meant a deal was ‘essentially impossible, not just now but ever’.
Sometimes no deal is the best deal. This is obviously one of them.