THE model mistress who was embroiled in a race row that ended Henry Bolton’s career as Ukip leader has sensationally claimed the politician smuggled her into his flat in a suitcase – and wore her leopard print knickers to work.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the 26-year-old defended her Meghan Markle “bad seed” messages as just “drunk banter”.

The glamour girl got together with 55-year-old Bolton after they met at a Ukip Christmas lunch. He caused outrage when he left his third wife to be with her.

She revealed that because of the media interest in their relationship, Henry once zipped her into a large suitcase and wheeled her into his apartment building to avoid paparazzi.

She holed up in his home in secret for several weeks to avoid the media and said she “felt like Anne Frank in the war.”

Jo also wrote that she lent Bolton a pair of her leopard print knickers to wear to the NEC vote on his future as Ukip leader.

She said: “I wonder how the members of the Ukip NEC may have reacted if they’d have known that the man they unanimously voted against was wearing my leopard-print knickers under his three-piece-suit.”