A Labour candidate who is trying to oust Boris Johnson from his seat at the general election on December 12 has apologised for tweeting anti-Semitic remarks.

Ali Milani, 25, is the Labour Party candidate in the west London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip which Mr Johnson has represented since 2015.

Mr Milani believes he has a good chance of beating Mr Johnson at the snap poll but he has had to apologise for comments he posted when he was a teenager.

Speaking to LBC he said he was 'deeply embarrassed' by his actions online when he was a teenager and that he had apologised for them.

Mr Ali said he wanted to be 'open and honest and learn' from his past as he detailed his efforts to remedy the situation.

Ali Milani, Labour's candidate in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, has apologised for tweeting anti-Semitic remarks when he was a teenager

Labour is hoping to oust Boris Johnson from his west London seat on December 12. The PM held Uxbridge in 2017 with a majority of just over 5,000

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.'

Mr Ali called for more to be done in the Labour Party and society as a whole to tackle anti-Semitism.

The Labour Party is currently under investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over its handling of anti-Semitism allegations.

Mr Johnson won his Uxbridge seat in 2015 with a majority of 10,695 votes. But in 2017 his majority was cut to just 5,034, with Labour in second place.

Mr Ali suggested that the election result in the seat in December could hinge on how active the Brexit Party is there in the coming weeks.

He said: 'Obviously when you include the Brexit Party... things become clear and we actually go into the lead when the Brexit Party are involved.'

Mr Ali said he hoped Uxbridge would become the 'first seat in British democracy history to unseat a sitting prime minister'.