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UK's Johnson denies allegations of patronage, groping
MANCHESTER, England (AP) ‐ U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson battled to fend off allegations of improper patronage and groping a woman as he prepared a final push Monday to fulfill his pledge to lead his country out of the European Union in just over a month ‐ and, he hopes, move British politics beyond its fracture over Europe.Johnson sought to energize Conservative members and lawmakers ‐ weary after three years of Brexit gridlock ‐ at the party’s annual conference, but he was forced to deny a journalist’s claim that he had grabbed her thigh at a private lunch two decades ago. Sunday Times columnist Charlotte Edwardes said the incident took place when she worked at The Spectator, a conservative newsmagazine, while Johnson was its editor. Asked if the allegation was true, Johnson said: "No." Edwardes stood by her story, tweeting: "If the prime minister doesn’t recollect the incident then clearly I have a better memory than he does." Posted by: Besoeker 2019-10-01 |
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