Downing Street have refused to clarify whether Boris Johnson supports an aide’s comments about black people being mentally inferior to white people.

Andrew Sabisky, 27, hired by Dominic Cummings, also suggested that giving children performance-enhancing drugs is worth ‘a dead kid once a year’ and likened women’s sport to the Paralympics.

He also advocates for eugenics, which aims to improve the genetic quality of the population by excluding certain groups judged to be ‘inferior’.

At a Westminster media briefing, Johnson’s deputy spokesman was asked 32 times if the Prime Minister supported Mr Sabisky’s views.

Instead of answering, he chose to repeatedly state that Johnson’s views were ‘well publicised and documented’.

He was then asked if this could be taken in reference to Johnson’s previous comments, in which the PM referred to black people as ‘piccaninnies’ with ‘watermelon smiles’ in 2002.

The spokesman responded to this by only repeating that Johnson’s views were ‘well publicised and documented’.

He also stated repeatedly that he was ‘not going to be commenting on individual appointments’ when asked about the hiring of the aide.

Mr Sabisky made comments about the IQs of black people on a blog post published in 2014, which is now being circulated on social media.

He wrote: ‘If the mean black American IQ is (best estimate based on a century’s worth of data) around 85, as compared to a mean white American IQ of 100, then if IQ is normally distributed, you will see a far greater percentage of blacks than whites in the range of IQs 75 or below, at which point we are close to the typical boundary for mild mental retardation.

Some of the questions put to Boris Johnson’s spokesman

Q: Does Mr Sabisky have a job in Downing Street?

Spokesman: I’m not going to be commenting on individual appointments.

Q: Does the PM think it’s worth thinking about mandatory contraception to prevent a permanent underclass in the UK?

Spokesman: As I say in relation to this subject, I won’t be commenting on individual appointments. The Prime Minister’s views are well publicised and documented.

Q: Does the PM think black people have a lower IQ than white people?

Spokesman:  I’ve answered your question.

Q: Can you remind us of the Prime Minister’s views

Spokesman: As I say, they’re well publicised and well documented.

Q: Can you direct us to where to find the PM’s views on eugenics?

Spokesman: I’ve answered the question.

Q: You haven’t answered the question.

Spokesman: I’ve been clear, I’m not commenting on individual appointments and as I say the PM’s views on a range of subjects is well publicised and well documented.

Q: Does the PM believe that women’s sport is closer to the Paralympics than men’s sport?

Spokesman: As I say, the PM’s views are well publicised and well documented.

Q: One of the PM’s most well documented views on race is calling black people ‘picaninnies’. Should we take that as his well documented view that you’re referring to?

Spokesman: As I’ve said, the Prime Minister’s views are well publicised and well documented.

Q: What about the one about ‘watermelon smiles’?

Spokesman: I appreciate the persistence, but I’m not going to be saying any more on this.

Q: Can you understand why we might think these are the PM’s views, considering he’s hired someone who holds these views? That he condones them?

Spokesman: I haven’t given any indication of that. I’ve simply stated the PM’s views are well documented and well published.

Questions taken from a full transcript reported by the Mirror.

‘That parsimoniously explains the greater diagnostic rates for blacks when it comes to “Intellectual Disability”.

‘It [is] simply a consequence of the normal distribution of cognitive ability, because there are significant differences in the group means.’

He also came under fire for previously stating that much of the ‘hue and cry’ against female genital mutilation ‘looks more like a moral panic’.

With regards to eugenics, Mr Sabisky said in 2016: ‘Eugenics are about selecting “for” good things.

‘Intelligence is largely inherited and it correlates with better outcomes: physical health, income, lower mental illness. There is no downside to having IQ except short-sightedness.’

In 2014, he also spoke in favour of the legal enforcement of contraception, stating that it would help stop unplanned pregnancies in the UK.

He wrote: ‘One way to get around the problems of unplanned pregnancies creating a permanent underclass would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty.

‘Vaccination laws give it a precedent, I would argue.’

Mr Sabisky’s comments are said to have also caused uproar among ministers, with reports of some preparing to boycott meetings where he is present.

Multiple special advisers told Buzzfeed they and their cabinet ministers will not be responding to emails from him, and will be urging Johnson to sack him.

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