Ali Milani, 25, is campaigning to win the Prime Minister’s Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat (Picture: PA)

Labour’s candidate hoping he can unseat Boris Johnson in the upcoming election has apologised for anti-Semitic comments he made as a teenager.

Ali Milani, 25, is campaigning to win the seat represented by the prime minister since 2015.

Mr Milani is one of the youngest parliamentary candidates in the country, but he said he believes he has a good chance of unseating the PM, something he said would be ‘dramatically humiliating’ for Mr Johnson.

During a recent interview with LBC radio he said he wanted to be ‘open and honest and learn’ from the comments he made on Twitter several years ago.




Mr Milani told host Maajid Nawaz that he was ‘deeply embarrassed’ by the tweets.

He said: ‘I tweeted a number of things that were anti-Semitic when I was between the age of 16 and 17, around that age, and you know, everything from tropes and jokes that were deeply inappropriate, anti-Semitic and wrong.

‘What I have been able to do since then, as well as apologise and reach out, sit down with the Jewish colleagues and friends.

‘I was fortunate enough and really blessed to be taken to Auschwitz and Birkenau to try and gain a broader understanding of what impacts anti-Semitism has.’

Ali Milani is the Labour Party’s election candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Picture: Rex)

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has majority of just 5,034 over Labour in his constituency (Picture: AFP)

Later in the interview the Labour candidate said he hopes he can become the first ‘in British democracy history to unseat a sitting prime minister’.

Mr Milani said: ‘Essentially what that would mean is, if there is one way to guarantee that Boris Johnson will not be prime minister, will not be an MP and will not be involved in the future of politics in this country, that’s by beating him here in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.’

Last week it was revealed that Mr Johnson may attempt to switch seats as he faces a tough fight to hold on to his west London constituency.

The PM has majority of just 5,034 over Labour and it will take a swing of just over 5% for him to lose it.

Mr Johnson would face added difficulty if Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party field a candidate and split the Leave vote.

A Downing Street source dismissed rumours Mr Johnson could switch seats as ‘tosh and nonsense’.

Jeremy Corbyn has lost the support of the Jewish Labour Movement (Picture: PA)

This weekend, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was duped into signing a piece of paper printed with the words: ‘I am an anti-Semite.’

He was ambushed by a teenager while launching the party’s election campaign at Gloucester University on Saturday.

The party has come under fire for its handing of an anti-Semitism crisis this year.

Last week the Jewish Labour Movement said it would not be supporting Mr Corbyn to win the election – the first time in its 100-year history it has turned against the party.

On Sunday shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he was ‘saddened’ by claims that Mr Corbyn becoming PM would ‘harm the Jewish way of life’.

While appearing on the Andrew Marr show, Mr McDonnell was shown the front pages of three Jewish newspapers highlighting anger over Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis.



He said the party was doing everything it had been asked to do by Jewish leaders but the Board of Deputies of British Jews tweeted that his claim ‘stretches credulity’.

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