BORIS Johnson’s furious partner Carrie Symonds tonight claimed she had been “stitched up” after cops dashed to a late-night row between the couple.
Carrie, 31, has told pals she is too scared to return to her £750,000 flat after being subjected to what she believes to be a hate campaign.
A Boris camp insider said: “As far as Carrie is concerned this is a stitch-up.
“Both she and Boris are convinced that this was politically-motivated.
“It was a row like lots of couples have at the end of a demanding day but suddenly they found the police on their doorstep.”
Left-wing playwrights Eve Leigh, and Tom Penn were behind the police call out in Labour-held Camberwell, South London, on Friday.
The couple live directly below the flat Carrie shares with Boris, 55, in a converted townhouse.
The left-wing Guardian newspaper had quoted an unnamed neighbour who said they recorded the row from inside their flat and called 999 after knocking on Carrie’s door and failing to get a response.
On Saturday night Remain supporting Tom, 29, confirmed he had called the police and said: “My sole concern was the welfare and safety of my neighbours.”
He also admitted recording the spat and contacting The Guardian.
It also emerged on Saturday that New York-born Eve, 34, had a series of anti-Tory tweets on her account dating back to the Occupy London protests in 2012 when Boris was the capital’s mayor.
A tweet posted on her recently-deleted Twitter account said: “Just gave Boris Johnson the finger.”
On Saturday, anti-Boris posters were plastered on fences opposite Carrie’s flat.
One was even left on Mr Johnson’s car — next to two parking tickets.
Decorated with stars from the EU flag, the posters say: “We’d rather endure him as our neighbour than our Prime Minister.”
And 300 locals are today planning an anti-Boris rally to coincide with a dog show.
Tom, who has lived in the flat with Eve for a year, said: “In the early hours of Friday, I answered a phone call from a takeaway food delivery driver. At the same time, I heard what sounded like shouting coming from the street.
“I went and collected my food.
“On the way back into my flat, it became clear that the shouting was coming from a neighbour’s flat.
“It was loud enough and angry enough that I felt frightened and concerned for the welfare of those involved, so I went inside my own home, closed the door, and pressed record on my phone.
“After a loud scream and banging, followed by silence, I ran upstairs, and with my wife agreed that we should check on our neighbours.
“I knocked three times at their front door, but there was no response. I went back upstairs into my flat, and we agreed that we should call the police.
“The police arrived within five minutes. Our call was made anonymously, and no names were given to the police.
“They subsequently called back to thank us for reporting, and to let us know that nobody was harmed.
“To be clear, the recordings were of the noise within my own home.
“My sole concern up until this point was the welfare and safety of our neighbours. Once clear that no one was harmed, I contacted the Guardian, as I felt it was of important public interest.
“I believe it is reasonable for someone who is likely to become our next Prime Minister to be held accountable for all of their words, actions, and behaviours.
“I voted to remain within the EU. That is the extent of my involvement in politics.”
Cambridge graduate Eve is the daughter of late American composer Mitch Leigh and artist mother Abby.
In January, she wrote a play for pro-European event Brexit Stage Left — a “festival of staged readings of provocative cutting-edge plays from across the EU”.
The London festival was co-funded by the “Creative Europe Programme” of the EU.
In an interview earlier this year she criticised cuts to arts funding.
Her social media has accused Theresa May of having “insanely cruel policies towards immigrants, poor people and people of colour”.
In February 2018, a tweet said: “The government have blood on their hands after Grenfell.
“And now? If this cladding is the best the poor deserve then fit Downing Street with it.” In November 2017, a re-tweeted comment said: “Today’s debate: Has Boris Johnson set men in politics back decades?”
The previous July, there was a re-tweet of a plea by Guardian columnist Owen Jones urging people to donate to the local Labour candidate. It said: “We can replace Boris Johnson with a Labour MP. Just imagine. Please donate here — and make history.”
A source in the camp of Tory leadership front-runner Boris said: “The local hatred to Boris and Carrie has been ramped up recently. That’s why they feel it’s a stitch-up.
“Carrie is now really frightened and cannot believe this has happened over such a minor matter.
“She and Boris will not be going back there as they are too worried about the hostility they faced.
“They know Eve and her partner — and Eve has given Boris the finger on at least one occasion in the street.”
Two police cars and a van arrived outside Carrie’s flat after the 999 call.
Officers took no action and left within minutes. They are not believed to have listened to the recording made by Mr Penn.
In it Carrie is said to have shouted “get off me” and “get out of my flat”.
Boris is reportedly heard loudly ordering his lover “get off my f***ing laptop”.
The row blew up when Boris — favourite to become Prime Minister next month — spilt red wine on Carrie’s favourite cream cushion and light-coloured sofa.
The spat came just hours after he had emerged victorious in the final round ballot of MPs in the Conservative leadership battle. On the same day, Carrie — a victim in 2007 of black cab rapist John Worboys — had seen her attacker plead guilty to four new charges of drugging women.
A source said: “Boris spilt red wine on the sofa at the end of a long day — and they had a row which then died down.
“Carrie grabbed the laptop because she was moving things due to the red wine spillage.
“There was an argument – but it was the sort that couples up and down the country have all the time without police racing around.
“Police were called mid-row and by the time they got there a few minutes later, it had ended.
“When the police turned up they seemed bemused and didn’t really appear to know what they were doing there.
“They stayed for a few minutes and could see everyone was OK and calm and then left.
“The police did not have time to listen to the recording, and they even joked with Carrie about how best to get red wine stains out of a sofa.
“There is no disputing they had an argument and she shouted at him — but that’s all it was. Carrie had also had a really difficult day with the new Worboys convictions.
“Carrie and Boris had a row — but they do not argue a lot.
“The worlds they work in are chaotic but they are both calm and stable and grounded most of the time.
“The way they have been portrayed is just not them.
“They think the circumstances of how this made its way into a left-wing newspaper is very suspicious.
IT’S a scene repeated up and down the country.
Man comes in from a long day at work and like bungling Boris Johnson spills wine on the couch to his partner’s annoyance.
Many of us have had those long, stressful days that you just want to end, when our tempers and fuses are short.
In Carrie and Boris’ case you can understand how the argument would’ve been sparked.
Boris would’ve been shattered, desperate for a haven after a gruelling 15-hour day on the Tory leadership campaign.
For Carrie, the day would have been even more emotionally draining because — as a victim of taxi driver John Worboys — she learned the rapist had pleaded guilty to four more attacks.
To top it, she’d also been out on the trail with Boris, too.
It takes little, then, to light the touch paper.
But what neither would’ve bargained for when tempers frayed was that they were being recorded by neighbours and police subsequently called. I’d be devastated if mine did that.
There is every chance they kissed and made up. But I don’t imagine they’ll be inviting the neighbours round to share a bottle of red any time soon.
People should calm down: it’s wine stain, not Weinstein.
“They haven’t pursued legal action over the recording. They don’t want to dignify it with an official response. The actions of the police tell its own story.” One neighbour of the couple said yesterday: “It really concerns me that someone inside the house has been recording things. I’m sorry Boris and Carrie are having to put up with this nonsense.”
PR guru Carrie has been credited with having smartened up Boris’s image and was at his campaign launch.
She took him for a romantic birthday meal in London’s Piccadilly on Wednesday night.
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