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Boris Johnson battles sex allegations
    2019-10-01  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

BRITISH Prime Minister Boris Johnson hoped to use his Conservative Party’s annual convention to launch his campaign to win the next British general election. Instead, he is fighting for his credibility as prime minister as he faces allegations of sexual impropriety and plots to oust him.

After two months in charge of the U.K. Government, Johnson was forced to deny he groped a journalist at a lunch around 20 years ago, and batted away allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a businesswoman and authorized taxpayer-funded sponsorship for her company during his time as London mayor.

The journalist, Charlotte Edwardes, made the allegations in an article in the Sunday Times. Johnson had, she said, placed his hand “high up my leg” with “enough inner flesh beneath his fingers to make me sit suddenly upright.” After the lunch, she compared notes with the woman sitting on Johnson’s other side, who said she’d had the same experience.

“This allegation is untrue,” said a spokesman for Johnson’s office.

The prime minister also refused to engage with questions about his links to an American former model and entrepreneur, Jennifer Arcuri. The Sunday Times reported that Arcuri confided to friends that she was in a sexual relationship with Johnson while he was serving as mayor of London.

He is alleged to have authorized taxpayer-funded sponsorship for Arcuri’s fledgling technology business and allowed her to accompany delegations on foreign visits despite her business being ineligible.

Johnson told the BBC simply that there had been no impropriety. “I am very, very proud of everything we did and everything I did as mayor of London,” he said. Asked if he had declared his links with Arcuri in the register of interests, he replied: “There was no interest to declare.”

The furor overshadowed his first appearance as prime minister at his ruling Conservative party’s annual conference in Manchester, England. The grassroots members propelled him to power in July after he promised to complete the U.K.’s divorce from the European Union by the deadline of Oct. 31.

Johnson sought to double down on his Brexit pledge, making the theme of the party convention: “Get Brexit Done.”

The Scottish National Party has publicly proposed calling a vote of no-confidence in Johnson’s government. (SD-Agencies)

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