The United Kingdom Labour Party is urging Prime Minister Boris Johnson to apologise for having published racist and cruel remarks about Jamaicans nearly two decades ago.
The news comes after an article published in August 2003 in the weekly British business magazine, Spectator, while Mr. Johnson was editor, resurfaced.
It is still on the magazine's website.
In the piece, the writer claims that Jamaican immigrants to the UK are "ludicrously self-satisfied, macho, lupine-gaited, gold-chained-and-front-toothed predators of the slums, with the bodies of giants and the mind of a pea."
The current British Prime Minister was editor of the Spectator magazine from 1999 to 2005.
A report in Scotland's National newspaper says the article came to light again as Prince William and Kate the Duchess of Cambridge headed to Jamaica on a Caribbean tour.
Commenting on the Spectator article, the Labour Party's shadow equalities minister, Taiwo Owatemi, called for the Prime Minister to apologise for having published it.
The National says the Prime Minister's office, Downing Street, has been approached for comment.
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