Boris Johnson ‘took blonde Tory aide for Valentine’s Day date at London restaurant’

Diners shocked after Boris Johnson ‘walked into restaurant on Valentine’s Day with glamorous blonde aide’

• Ex-Foreign Secretary ‘took vivacious aide for lunch at a posh London restaurant’
• Date said to have lasted two hours while Mr Johnson was meant to be working
• Comes as wife Marina Wheeler announces divorce from 54-year-old after tiring of his cheating antics

Boris Johnson cheated on his wife on Valentine’s Day with a glamorous Tory aide, it has been claimed.

The former Foreign Secretary is said to have wined and dined the blonde in front of shocked diners at an exclusive London restaurant behind his wife’s back.

Mr Johnson, 54, was supposed to be working when he took the young woman out for lunch in the capital as MPs sat in the Commons. 

Boris Johnson (pictured in London last night) is thought to have wined and dined a Tory aide on Valentine’s Day

Mr Johnson’s wife Marina Wheeler announced the divorce on Thursday. Pictured: The couple together in 2008 at the GQ Men of the Year Awards, when he was mayor of London 

One diner told The Sun: ‘It seemed quite an intimate meal and hardly anything to do with any great matters of the state.

‘It was quite a strange day to be meeting a young attractive woman for a meal in one of London’s most exclusive restaurants.’

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The date lasted two hours and the pair were joined by bodyguards who sat at a nearby table.

Mr Johnson’s wife Marina Wheeler announced the divorce on Thursday after tiring of the 54-year-old’s cheating antics. 

Diners said the Valentine’s Day date lasted two hours, while Mr Johnson was meant to be working

Sources said the marital crisis erupted in early July, around the time Mr Johnson sparked chaos by quitting as foreign secretary over Theresa May’s Chequers plan.

One source claimed Mr Johnson had dumped a lover to take up the blonde Tory aide. Another said he was involved with only one woman. 

The aide was described as a young, vivacious and stunning blonde who regularly posts glamorous photos of herself online. 

Affair: Mr Johnson and Petronella Wyatt, now 50, who fell for his charms while she was his deputy when he was editor of The Spectator magazine

But she took down her Instagram account yesterday and messages to her seeking comment went unanswered. She lives with her mother, who would not open the door yesterday.

Mr Johnson, who has had at least four extramarital affairs and made at least two of his mistresses pregnant, refused to comment when he left his country home in Oxfordshire.

Minutes later he and Miss Wheeler announced their marriage was over. In a joint statement they said: ‘Several months ago, after 25 years of marriage, we decided it was in our best interests to separate.

In 2006 The News of the World reported that Mr Johnson had also had an affair with journalist Anna Fazackerley, then 29

‘We have subsequently agreed to divorce and that process is under way. As friends we will continue to support our four children in the years ahead. We will not be commenting further.’

Miss Wheeler, 54, a Cambridge-educated QC and the daughter of veteran BBC correspondent Sir Charles Wheeler, has been getting their assets professionally valued in recent weeks, a source said. 

She has put up with her husband’s infidelity for years. In 2004, he admitted having an affair with the writer Petronella Wyatt who had an abortion.

He had initially denied the fling but was sacked from the shadow cabinet for lying. In 2009, he was thrown out of the marital home again for fathering a lovechild with arts consultant Helen Macintyre.

He fathered a love child with art consultant Helen Macintyre (pictured) who worked for him in an unpaid capacity

Both times Miss Wheeler – mother to their four older children Lara, Milo Arthur, 23, Cassia Peaches, 21, and Theodore Apollo, 19 – took him back.

Fashion journalist Lara was reportedly overheard exploding with rage at her father, telling friends at a party he ‘is a selfish b******’.

They couple are thought to have been living apart for some time.

The announcement of the break-up came amid signs that Mr Johnson was poised to make a pitch for No 10.

A friend of Mr Johnson said: ‘He hates the children knowing this stuff but there’s no getting around the fact that his living arrangements have changed.

Allegra Mostyn-OwenAllegra out and about, London, Britain in May 2008 . She was the first wife of Boris Johnson

‘It’s all very painful to watch.’

Despite the family upheaval, Mr Johnson took his four children – but not his wife – to his father Stanley’s holiday villa on Greece’s Pelion peninsula last week.

He was photographed by locals relaxing with one of the children in a taverna and at the airport with Milo.

It was rumoured earlier this year that Mr Johnson had taken to the habit of giving his police protection officers the slip for illicit liaisons. His spokesman declined to comment last night.

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