Mayor of London Boris Johnson has criticized the US president Barack Obama and suggested his attitude to Britain might be based on his “part-Kenyan” heritage and “ancestral dislike of the British empire”.

Writing a column for The Sun newspaper, the Mayor of London recounted a story about a bust of Winston Churchill purportedly being removed from White House.

“Some said it was a snub to Britain. Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire – of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender,” he wrote.

The story itself about the bust being removed is false: the White House clarified in 2012 that it has been moved to the President’s private residence elsewhere in the building.

“This is 100 per cent false. The bust still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room,” a spokesperson for the White House said at the time it debunked the rumour.

The Mayor said that the US would never dream of engaging in an arragement similar to the EU.

Source ; MENA