Boris Johnson at the center of controversy: the list of candidates for the peer category presented upon his resignation is the longest ever compiled by an outgoing head of government
Boris Johnson, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, known as BoJo, is at the center of a controversy for the very long list he presented at the time of his resignation. It is tradition, in fact, for the outgoing prime minister to compile a list with the names of the personalities to be granted access to the so-called peer categorythat is, transforming them into dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons.
The allegations of sexual harassment against Boris Johnson’s father, Stanley
In his list, Johnson has included 100 personalities to be awarded a noble title, including father Stanley Johnson, accused of sexual harassment by Caroline Nokes, former minister during Theresa May’s government, and by journalist Ailbhe Rea, signature of the New Statesman.
Nokes said that, during the Conservative party conference in Blackpool in 2003, Stanley Johnson gave her some “slaps on the butt, as hard as he could” and he’d tell her, “Oh, you’ve got a nice seat.”
The father of the former British prime minister, who was MEP from 1979 to 1984, said he had “no recollection” of that alleged episode of harassment.
But he doesn’t finish saying it, even the journalist Rea accuses him: “He groped me at a party in celebration of the 2019 Conservative Conference”.
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