In the recordings released yesterday. Mr. Johnson at one point reacts angrily and starts yelling at her when she complains that he was hesitant to meet her. Losing control, Mr. Johnson screams, “I’ve been incredibly busy! I tried to meet you the other day! Jesus f—— a—hole. I wanted to meet you!”
“Link to parliamentary office”
Johnson was mayor of London and MP for Henley when he began a brief relationship with the woman. He was 43 at the time and married with four children, while the woman had graduated in her 20s and had become involved in Conservative Party politics. At the height of the #MeToo movement she decided to re-contact Mr Johnson, until now foreign secretary, to complain about her treatment. He texted Mr. Johnson asking to speak. According to the Sunday Times, she then told Johnson she was uncomfortable with their brief relationship in 2008. The woman, now a legal practitioner and married mother of two, kept the recording for more than four years before contacting The Sunday Times in April and then finally agreed to come forward with her version of events last week after deciding there was interest. of the public to know what had happened. During their meeting she told Johnson she was “really upset and upset” about what had happened between them, according to the Sunday Times. He told Mr Johnson it was an example of how a young woman “walking into this building is fair game” and should be “watched” by powerful men there. He said he regretted that their relationship had turned sexual. The pair were “hooking up” in his parliamentary office in 2008 and that Johnson had invited her for a drink. In the recording, Mr. Johnson confirms his recollection of the events. The woman then said: “I wanted to go into politics, you said you’d get me a job at City Hall, remember I went for an interview with Kit Malthouse?” Mr Malthouse, promoted last week to chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the new cabinet hastily assembled by Mr Johnson, was then London’s deputy mayor in charge of policing. Mr Johnson told her: “Can I say something? I pitched you for a role and I was very disappointed when you didn’t get the part. I remember that.” He continued: “I put you forward for the job and I really wanted Kit to interview you and I remember he interviewed you. I asked him about it afterwards, repeatedly, why he hadn’t given you the job and I was very disappointed. He hadn’t. I remember . And I’m afraid one of the reasons he gave was that he thought you were too friendly with me.”
“You can’t just machine friends into jobs”
Mr Johnson also insisted he had done nothing “improper”, telling her: ‘I think you would honestly feel it was an abuse of power and an abuse of friendship. You can’t just machine friends into jobs. You can’t No at City Hall.” Mr Johnson has been accused in recent weeks of trying to secure a job for his then-mistress Carrie Simmonds (now his third wife) as his chief of staff at the State Department in 2018. While he was mayor in 2011, he helped another mistress, Jennifer Arcuri, to secure access to taxpayer-funded travel in 2011.
