Boris Criticised Over Comment To Obama: “Obama’s anti-British because of his Kenyan heritage"

Mr Johnson, one of the most high-profile figures in the Vote Leave camp, said Mr Obama's suggestion that the UK would be at the back of the queue for free trade deals if it chose to leave the union was "ridiculous".

According to sky news Boris Johnson has hit back at the Remain side after a warning from Barack Obama about leaving the EU, with the London Mayor saying the UK should not be "bullied".

Boris dodged questions about whether his comments that the President was anti-British because of his Kenyan heritage were "racist".

"I think it is absolutely ridiculous that the UK is now being told it has to go to the back of the queue for any free trade deal," Mr Johnson said.

"For us to be bullied in this way, I don't want to exaggerate, for people to say we are going to be unable to cope on our own is absolutely wrong."

Mr Johnson said the real reason the UK had not been able to do a free trade deal with the US in the last 43 years was because of EU membership.

Writing separately in his regular Daily Telegraph column he said that the Remain group "think they have bombed us into submission".

But Mr Johnson suggested they "think it's game over", were "crowing too soon" and could be "ignoring the resilience and thoughtfulness of many middle-of-the-road" voters.

And he claimed Prime Minister David Cameron achieved "two thirds of diddly squat" in his negotiations on EU reform in the lead up to the referendum.

During his visit to the UK, the President said Britain may have to wait a decade for a free trade deal with the US if it votes to quit the EU on 23 June.

Mr Johnson was widely criticised for suggesting that Mr Obama's Kenyan heritage might have given him negative feelings towards Britain.

The London Mayor's comments prompted Africans for Britain to withdraw its support for the Brexit campaign saying Mr Johnson's comments were deplorable and alarming.

Mr Johnson, whose article contained a reference to Mr Obama allegedly removing a bust of Winston Churchill from the White House, wrote in Friday's The Sun: "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."