Boris Johnson Carrie Symonds

The 'Carriegate' affair was the story that apparently wasn't. The revelation by The Times that Boris Johnson wanted to appoint his then mistress Carrie Symonds ...

Even as they claim that everything they do is driven by the public interest and, in the name of press freedom, they go completely unscrutinised. But the ‘Partygate’ scandal of lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street has shown that the press can hold power to account – when it chooses to. Whether through a fresh scandal they have been holding back for the occasion or because his daily failures of leadership reach an endpoint with the public. A spokesperson for Carrie Johnson then told the Guardian that the claims had been “totally untrue” – but this didn’t explain why an on-the-record denial had not been provided to Walters ahead of publication when he asked for it. Despite this newspaper’s attempts to find out, we still don’t know how many millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money was handed to the newspapers. It was not printed in later editions of The Times or on its website and the MailOnline article also disappeared.

Report had claimed Boris Johnson tried to hire his now wife as chief of staff when foreign secretary, but then it was deleted.

News aggregation sites have also deleted their copies of the MailOnline article. The paper’s editor, John Witherow, is reported to be off work. I went to all the relevant people over two days. Walters told the Guardian: “I stand by the story. Johnson was then still married to Marina Wheeler, a barrister. Downing Street declined to give an on-the-record response to the story but a No 10 source also said the story was untrue – and suggested it was sexist.

DOMINIC Cummings has supported allegations that Boris Johnson tried to hire his now-wife to a government role while he was foreign secretary –…

Renowned investigative journalist Simon Walters, who wrote the Times article, told the Guardian and New European that he stands by the story. Cummings, the Prime Minister’s former senior aide, has backed the initial Times report. A re-written version of the article did appear on the Mail Online, but was also taken down.

Questions are growing about a story that appeared in The Times, claiming that Boris Johnson planned to hand his then-girlfriend Carrie a £100k a year role.

Making her chief of staff was definitely our business.” Questions are growing about a story that appeared in The Times newspaper, claiming that Boris Johnson planned to hand his then-girlfriend Carrie a £100k a year role. Mystery deepens around Times story that claimed Boris Johnson planned to make girlfriend Carrie £100k chief of staff

One of the scoops of the year seems to have mysteriously disappeared from The Times this morning. Early prints of the newspaper were carrying a sensational ...

“I MUST SAY I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THE STORY OF CARRIE JOHNSON, THEN SYMONDS, BEING OFFERED A ROLE AS CHIEF OF STAFF FOR THE THE FOREIGN OFFICE, BEFORE IT WAS QUASHED BY THE ETHICS STAFF, AND WE CERTAINLY DIDN’T CONFIRM IT WITH FOUR OF BORIS JOHNSON’S ALLIES! Early prints of the newspaper were carrying a sensational story suggesting that Boris Johnson (then Foreign Secretary, and now Prime Minister) wanted to give Carrie Symonds (then his side-piece, and now wife) a £100,000-a-year role in the foreign office in 2018, back when the blonde bastard (Boris, not Carrie), was still only dreaming of Downing Street. Mr Bullshit – get the Boris Mr Men style T-shirt and mug here!

Downing Street on Monday reiterated denials that the Prime Minister attempted to place his then girlfriend in a £100000 a year Government job while he was ...

He added that he “did not know the exact time lines” of when No 10 staff spoke to the newspaper and he did not know whether the Prime Minister would seek a correction from the Times. Over the weekend the Times reported claims that Boris Johnson had tried to hire his now wife, Carrie, as his chief of staff in the Foreign Office. owning Street on Monday reiterated denials that the Prime Minister attempted to place his then girlfriend in a £100,000 a year Government job while he was Foreign Secretary, and suggestions No 10 suppressed the story when it appeared in the press.

Early copies of The Times on Saturday included a claim that Boris Johnson sought to appoint Carrie as his chief of staff when he was Foreign Secretary - but ...

I went to all the relevant people over two days. Truth is worse!" The facts speak for themselves." I think we spoke to them after publication as well." "[Simon] Walters repeatedly published accurate stories, e.g on illegal donations. The claim had previously been reported in Tory peer Lord Ashcroft's biography of Mrs Johnson.

Newspaper swiftly withdrew article alleging Boris Johnson tried to hire his future wife as chief of staff.

The spokesperson denied Cummings’s claim that Johnson tried to get his wife a Downing Street job while prime minister. A spokesperson for Carrie Johnson said the allegations were “totally untrue”. A Downing Street source described it as a “grubby, discredited story”. Johnson was still married to the barrister Marina Wheeler at the time.