Stanley Johnson, father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has been accused by Tory MP Caroline Nokes of inappropriate touching. These allegations prompted one other lady to assert she skilled harassment as nicely.
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“I can keep in mind a very outstanding man – on the time the Conservative candidate for Teignbridge in Devon – smacking me on the bottom about as laborious as he might and going, ‘oh, Romsey, you’ve got obtained a stunning seat,’” claimed Caroline Nokes, the chair of the Ladies and Equalities Committee, talking at a roundtable dialogue hosted by Sky Information.
She specified that the alleged encounter befell at a Conservative Social gathering convention in Blackpool in 2003.
Forward of the final election of 2005 Stanley Johnson was a candidate for Teignbridge whereas Nokes was eyeing a seat for Romsey and Southampton North. None of them obtained elected at the moment, although Nokes turned an MP in 2010.
Nokes expressed remorse that she had not referred to as Johsnon’s alleged habits out straight away.“I might have been in my early 30s, so sufficiently old, sufficiently old to name it out. I now regard it as an obligation, an absolute obligation, to name out wherever you see it,” she claimed.
Stanley Johnson, 81, when approached by Sky Information, answered that he didn’t keep in mind such an incident.
“I’ve no recollection of Caroline Nokes in any respect – however there you go. And no reply… Hey ho, good luck and thanks,” the previous MEP stated.
Ailbhe Rea, political correspondent for the New Statesman, stated she was grateful to Nokes for talking out and stated Johnson had “groped” her at a celebration at a Tory convention in 2019.
Stanley Johnson additionally groped me at a celebration at Conservative convention in 2019.
I’m grateful to Caroline Nokes for calling out one thing that none of us ought to should put up with, not least from the Prime Minister's father. https://t.co/Uf6lEdatux
— Ailbhe Rea (@PronouncedAlva) November 15, 2021
Shadow House Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds urged the Tories to launch an investigation.
“The Conservative Social gathering clearly wants to research a severe allegation like that, that occurred at their celebration convention,” he instructed Occasions Radio including that whoever the sufferer is, such allegations must be handled extraordinarily critically.
Requested on the identical radio station about his opinion of this concept, House Workplace Minister Damian Hinds stated that “if there’s an investigation available, if that’s the applicable plan of action, then after all that can occur.”
There was no rapid response from the prime minister.
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