Stanley Johnson accused of inappropriately touching Tory MP | conservatives

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The prime minister’s father, Stanley Johnson, has been accused of inappropriately dealing with a former cabinet minister and a prominent political journalist.

Caroline Knox, who chairs the Women and Equality Committee, said Johnson hit her below in 2003, while he was running for parliament for Teegenbridge in Devon.

Ailby Rhea, a New Statesman political reporter, said she was grateful to Nokes for speaking out and said Johnson “touched me at a party at the Conservative Conference in 2019”.

Johnson told Sky News he “didn’t remember Caroline Knox at all” when the radio called him. Home Secretary Damian Hinds said on Tuesday there should be an investigation into the allegations “if this is the appropriate course of action”.

Knox, the Representative for Rumsey, was speaking at a panel discussion with other lawmakers on Sky News. She said, “I had men’s deputies put their hands on my ass at the Strangers’ Bar [in parliament]. “

“I can remember a really notable man—at the time the Conservative candidate for Tynbridge in Devon—slapped me on the butt as hard as he could and said, ‘Oh, Rumsey, you have a nice seat. “

“I would have been in my early thirties, old enough, old enough to call it a name… I now consider it a duty, an absolute duty, to shriek wherever you see me. Being the annoying, annoying, aggressive woman in the room because if I wasn’t ready to do it, My daughter won’t be willing to do that… You’ll get to the point where you go, you won’t give up.”

After meeting the Nokes, Rhea tweeted: “Stanley Johnson also touched me at a party at the Conservative Conference in 2019. I’m grateful to Caroline Knox for inviting her for something none of us should put up with, not least from the Prime Minister. Father.”

Johnson, 81, failed his bid to become an MP in 2005. He told Sky News: “I don’t remember Caroline Knox at all – but there you are. No reply…hello, good luck and thanks.”

The panel also included three other senior lawmakers who spoke out as lawmakers about changes that could be made to end sexual harassment and violence. Labor MPs Jess Phillips, Rosina Allen-Khan and Conservative MP Faye Jones also spoke about their own experiences of sexual harassment.

Both Phillips and Allen Khan described being harassed at work in their previous jobs by senior managers. Phillips, the shadow secretary for domestic violence, said she was assaulted by her ex-boss at a party.

Jones, who was elected in 2019, described how she was drawn to a man when she was 17.

Hinds said the government is committed to making it safer for women and girls. He told Radio Times: “I don’t know clearly about… I heard this morning, as I did, or overnight, about this, about these allegations.”

“I can say, in general, in terms of the safety of women and girls, freedom from harassment wherever they are at home, at work, on the street, and online, this is a top priority for the government.

“But I don’t join in a link between that and this because we don’t know, but if there is an investigation, it will of course happen. If there is an investigation that has to be done, and if that is the appropriate course of action, then of course it will happen.”

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