The Tory frontrunner savaged Mr Khan out of nowhere, branding him “useless” and “invertebrate” and “not a patch on the old guy.” The onslaught was woven into Mr Johnson’s wider solution to a question that had been posed on monocultural housing policies. A member of the audience asked the former London Mayor: “How will you ensure the Government’s housing policies don’t lend themselves into creating ethnic categories inadvertently?”

Without hesitation, Mr Johnson blasted: “You build fantastic housing in the right place.

“And you put in superb transport infrastructure so you can create mixed communities where there are high quality jobs.

“And if you look at the disasters of planning in the ‘60s and ‘70s where monocultural estates were built, it’s because there simply wasn’t the transport infrastructure.

“Look around London and look at the estates outside London – you can see exactly what went wrong.”

And then Mr Johnson turned his attention to Mr Khan.

He raged: “So what we should do is immediately get rid of the current useless Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who’s doing nothing.”

At this, the entire room burst into ringing applause, forcing Mr Johnson to pause before adding: “He’s not a patch on the old guy.

“We should get rid of him – he’s completely invertebrate.”

The former foreign secretary proceeded to finish his answer, extolling the virtues of grand infrastructural projects like Crossrail 2 in liberating and equalising society.

Boris Johnson had kicked off the final Tory leadership hustings in typically eccentric style by brandishing a kipper on stage.

Addressing the crowd in London, he whipped out the plastic-wrapped fish which he said he had been handed by a national newspaper editor.

Mr Johnson claimed a kipper smoker is “utterly furious” because apparently his costs have been increased by EU rules he said mean each fish must be accompanied by a plastic-wrapped ice pillow.

“Pointless, expensive, environmentally-damaging health and safety, ladies and gentlemen,” Mr Johnson said.

Boris remains the frontrunner in the competition but Jeremy Hunt is rumoured to have closed much of the gap between the two Tories over the last few weeks.

The new leader will enter office next week on July 24.

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