Diane Abbott claims Boris Johnson is rumored to like assaulting women

Paddy O’Connell, who hosts the show, promptly stepped in to reprimand her and distance the Corporation from her claims.

That’s not been printed this morning, it’s not being said by the BBC,” he said. “Diane, you’ve got to answer my questions rather than raising new claims.

The BBC later removed the program from its BBC Sounds catch-up service on Sunday afternoon.

Comments later omitted by BBC

For editorial reasons, we are editing todays episode of Broadcasting House, a said in a statement. We are working to make it available to listeners as soon as possible.

By Sunday night, the episode had been uploaded to include the majority of the interview of Ms Abbott but to omit her comments about the Prime Minister.

Elsewhere in her remarks on the show, Ms Abbott praised the increase in transparency when it came to reporting sexual harassment.

She suggested the fact complaints had been made to the parliamentary authorities represented progress from a few decades ago, when she said male staffers would have been far less likely to contact the Whips Office.

Downing Street declined to comment. The Labor Party and Diane Abbott were contacted for comment.