Carrie Symonds has spoken publicly for the first time since news broke of her domestic row with Boris Johnson - but she avoided the subject entirely and sent a tweet about plastic.
Miss Symonds, a keen conservationist, informed her 24,000 Twitter followers tonight that 'recycling will not solve the problem' and called for a cut in plastic use.
The former Tory PR worker shared a video featuring celebrities such as David Attenborough and Mary Berry but the tweet shed no new light on the row which has dominated the leadership race in recent days.
She was reported to have told Mr Johnson to 'get off me' and 'get out of my flat' during the furious row on Friday morning, but neither she nor the Tory leadership favourite have spoken in public about what happened.
Carrie Symonds posted on Twitter for the first time since her row with Boris Johnson but did not mention the subject
That photo: Mr Johnson and Ms Symonds broke cover in a photo that showed them looking happy, but the picture itself has sparked a further row
Miss Symonds 'liked' a tweet on Saturday which suggested she should 'just carry on' despite the row.
However, she later un-liked the tweet, suggesting she may have pressed the button by accident.
Mr Johnson has since been engulfed in a further row over a picture of the couple apparently sitting happily together.
The photograph appeared to be taken from nearby bushes, but speculation has grown that Mr Johnson's campaign put out the picture in a bid to show their relationship was going strong.
No photographer or agency has claimed credit for the picture.
Today Mr Johnson repeatedly refused to answer questions about the photograph, insisting that 'I don't comment on that kind of thing'.
Asked where the photograph had come from, Mr Johnson said: 'The longer we spend on things extraneous to what I want to do ... the bigger the waste of time.'
Mr Johnson's apparent row with Miss Symonds (pictured earlier this month) has thrown his Conservative leadership campaign into chaos
Mr Johnson took to the campaign trail this afternoon as he visited Richmond in south west London. Team Boris has faced criticism for seemingly keeping the former mayor of London away from the public and the press during the race for Number 10
Pressed further by LBC's Nick Ferrari on whether the photo was in fact not recent, he replied: 'I am not going to comment
