Unsurprisingly, "Labour has seized on the remarks" made by Johnson in his collection of journalism entitled "Have I got Views for You", published in 2006 (Johnson: "Children of working women likely to be unloved hoodies", 05/12/19). What is surprising, however, particularly in view of all the claims of antisemitism made against Corbyn, is that they have not made more of the fact that apparently it is not only women and working class people for whom our prime minister "has nothing but contempt". When editor of the Spectator between 1999 and 2005, Johnson employed Taki Theodoracopulos, whose regular columns were packed full with antisemitic and pro-nazi bile. One particularly nasty column prompted the then owner of the Spectator, Conrad Black, to remark that its "venomous character" was "worthy of Goebbels".
Yet Johnson`s failure to sack Taki for writing such bigotry, let alone allowing, as editor, its publication never gets a mention. Labour should not be relying on anyone else to expose to the voters Johnson`s close links to an obvious racist. Even in the unlikely event of an interview with Andrew Neil taking place, this would not be brought up, as Neil is chair of Press Holdings Media group, the current owners of the Spectator. In the last week of the election campaign, Corbyn and his team have nothing to lose; make it public and demand an apology from Johnson!
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