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		</div><p>Boris Johnson’s bid to become Britain&#8217;s prime minister was thrown into chaos as it emerged police were called to the home he shares with partner Carrie Symonds.</p>
<p>As Mr Johnson geared up to go head to head with his challenger for the Tory crown, Jeremy Hunt, in the first run-off hustings on Saturday, questions over his private life dominated the battle for Downing Street.</p>
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<p>Police officers were alerted early on Friday to an incident at the home Mr Johnson shares with Ms Symonds after neighbours said there had been a loud altercation involving screaming, shouting and banging, according to the Guardian.</p>
<p>At one point Ms Symonds was heard telling Mr Johnson to “get off me” and “get out of my flat”, The Guardian reported.</p>
<p>You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt.</p>
<p>The newspaper said it had heard a recording of the incident in which Mr Johnson could allegedly be heard saying “get off my f****** laptop” before a loud crashing noise.</p>
<p>The Guardian said Ms Symonds could also be heard saying Mr Johnson had damaged a sofa with red wine.</p>
<p>“You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything,” Ms Symonds is reported to have said.</p>
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<p>Scotland Yard said they were alerted to the situation by a caller who “was concerned for the welfare of a female neighbour”.</p>
<p>A neighbour, a 32-year-old nursery worker who would only give her name as Fatimah, said: “Just after midnight I heard a lady shouting, but I couldn’t make out what she said, then I heard plates and glasses smashing and things being thrown around.</p>
<p>“I was watching something on the television and I had to mute it because I was quite concerned, it was coming through the walls.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_134544" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-134544" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-134544" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/A52CEBF7-01FE-4C35-9EDD-A545E465109F.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="897" data-wp-pid="134544" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-134544" class="wp-caption-text">Carrie Symonds, the partner of Boris Johnson</figcaption></figure>
<p>Another neighbour, who did not want to be identified, told The Telegraph: “I heard the row, it was pretty loud. I was quite worried to be honest, it was bad.</p>
<p>“I heard a lot of smashing – it sounded like plates or glasses – and I could hear her shouting. It was definitely her; I didn’t hear him. There was a lot of shouting and swearing. It didn’t last that long, maybe five minutes.”</p>
<p>The Metropolitan Police said it had responded to a call from a local resident at 12.24am on Friday, but after officers attended it was deemed “there were no offences or concerns” and there was no cause for police action.</p>
<p>The revelations came as Mr Johnson prepared to face the Tory faithful with Mr Hunt at the hustings in Birmingham.</p>
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<p>Ahead of the event, Mr Hunt attacked his rival over reports he was avoiding a live TV debate before postal ballots are returned.</p>
<p>Invoking Mr Johnson’s personal hero, Winston Churchill, in his criticism, the Foreign Secretary told the Daily Telegraph: “This is supposed to be his finest hour … but if you’re going to hide away, that’s not democracy.</p>
<p>“He may be the right man, I may be the right man. But Conservative Party members can only make that choice if you have a proper debate.</p>
<p>“And you can’t have that debate if one of the candidates is bottling all opportunities to have a public head-to-head debate before ballot papers are sent out.”</p>
<p>Mr Hunt said that “scrutiny can be uncomfortable”, but “if we can’t handle it with friends, we won’t deserve to lead against our opponents”.</p>
<p>Tory grassroots will gather on Saturday as reports of the row feature across the front pages.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson’s team have declined to comment on the reports, while his supporters remained largely quiet on Friday.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134545" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/E12BD892-B840-482D-83F3-9A7F13617BBF.jpeg" alt="" width="301" height="299" data-wp-pid="134545" /></p>
<p>Security minister Ben Wallace, who is a close ally of Mr Johnson, said in a tweet to a Sun journalist, which has since been deleted: “What a non story ‘couple have row.’ Lefty neighbours give recording to Guardian. Newspaper reaches new low is a better news story.”</p>
<p>In a second reply, responding to a Twitter user questioning his suggestion it was a “non story”, Mr Wallace referred to domestic abuse, saying: “Didn’t say DA was a non story. It is incredibly serious. But the report said ‘row’.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_134546" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-134546" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-134546" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/D35D5E1E-AAB7-4E1C-BD0C-E216DF1A8DFD.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="441" data-wp-pid="134546" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-134546" class="wp-caption-text">The south London home of Conservative party leadership candidate Boris Johnson</figcaption></figure>
<p>Tim Sinclair, a member of the Stratford-on-Avon Conservatives and a candidate in recent local elections, said he expects the incident will “puff up and blow away”.</p>
<p>“I suspect that this isn’t going to be a good story for him, he wouldn’t have ideally wanted it,” he told BBC Newsnight.</p>
<p>“However, ironically despite his background, he’s actually regarded as a man of the people purely because he acts normally – he speaks his mind, he does things and behaves in ways that normal people can look at.</p>
<p>“While this isn’t what you might call normal, having police come to your door, actually it shows him to be a real human being; having a row that gets a bit out of hand.”</p>
<p>Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP Mr Johnson announced last autumn that he and his wife Marina Wheeler were divorcing after 25 years of marriage.</p>
<p>The couple said the decision had been taken some months earlier.</p>
<p>Announcement of the split came after newspaper allegations about Mr Johnson having had another extra-marital affair.</p>
<p>The revelations about Mr Johnson followed a day of turmoil for the Tories which saw a difficult by-election looming after Chris Davies was ousted as the Tory MP for Brecon and Radnorshire after constituents signed a petition to remove him following a conviction for faking expenses claims.</p>
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<p>And Chief Whip Julian Smith promised an investigation after MP Antoinette Sandbach was called a “disgrace” by an unnamed male colleague.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Mark Field, an ally of Mr Hunt, was suspended as a Foreign Office minister after manhandling a climate change protester at a black-tie dinner.</p>
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