The prime minister’s father, Stanley Johnson, has been accused of inappropriately touching a former cabinet minister as well as a senior political journalist.
Caroline Nokes, who chairs the women and equalities committee, said Johnson had smacked her on the bottom in 2003, while he was in the running to be MP for Teignbridge in Devon.
Ailbhe Rea, political correspondent for the New Statesman, said she was grateful to Nokes for speaking out and said Johnson had “groped me at a party at Conservative conference in 2019”.
Johnson told Sky News he had “no recollection of Caroline Nokes at all” when approached by the broadcaster. The Home Office minister Damian Hinds said on Tuesday there should be an investigation into the claims “if that’s the appropriate course of action”. » | Jessica Elgot, Chief political correspondent | Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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