MY FOUR YEAR AFFAIR WITH BORIS
BORIS Johnson faces calls to “urgently reassure” the public that Jennifer Arcuri did not receive special treatment in the awarding of public money as a result of their affair.
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said it was vital he shows that he acted with “complete probity” in dealings with the US tech entrepreneur when he was Mayor of London.
In a letter to the PM, Ms Rayner links the favours Boris reportedly did for his lover to wider claims of Tory cronyism. She wrote: “People deserve to know taxpayers’ money is spent with honesty and integrity on the basis of what you
Boris cheated in know, not who you know.” Mr Johnson is understood
his family home to be reluctant to appear in front of a London Assembly committee which is looking
SCANDAL Jennifer talks to Mirror about her four-year relationship with Johnson into his affair with Ms Arcuri, from
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Ex-mistress reveals she and Johnson made love on a sofa while wife was away
After sleeping with his mistress on the family sofa & facing political questions over granting her special favours, now Boris reckons he’s acted with honesty and integrity...
public concern over whether firms with links to the Tory party had received special treatment.
Ms Arcuri was given £126,000 in public money, £10,000 of it from a body overseen by the mayor, and privileged access to three overseas trade missions led by Mr Johnson.
She maintains she was invited on the trips in her own right.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct concluded last year there was no evidence Mr Johnson committed misconduct in public office, a criminal offence.
But the watchdog said it would have been “wise” for him to have declared the affair and his failure to do so may have breached the Nolan Principles for Public Life. Ms Rayner also challenged Mr Johnson on claims by No10 that the IOPC found the allegations to be “untrue and unfounded” – when that phrase is not in the report.
The Greater London Authority is now set to