Boris Johnson is being urged to apologise for describing the children of single mothers as “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate”. It prompted a blistering attack by Jo Swinson, who said that his “disgusting comments” came as little surprise.
The Tory leader came under fire after the unearthing of a column on the “appalling proliferation of single mothers” written for the Spectator in 1995.
Last night Ms Swinson, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said: “Boris Johnson has a track record of making remarks that pick on people less powerful than him, particularly women, and he must make a full, unreserved apology for this and all the other comments he has made which have demeaned people.”
Earlier she used a speech in London to attack
