London mayor Boris Johnson under fire over Barack Obama ‘smear’

Boris Johnson has come under fire over his attack on the “part-Kenyan” president Barack Obama.

The Brexit-backing mayor of London said that it was “incoherent”, “inconsistent” and “downright hypo- critical” for the US leader to intervene in the EU referendum row.

But critics accused him of making a “loaded” attack by referring to the president’s ancestry, with Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott claiming Mr Johnson’s “offensive” comments echoed those of the “Tea Party” right-wing tendency in the US.