Javid evades questions on Johnson claims
Chancellor Sajid Javid has attempted to evade questions about the Prime Minister’s conduct following claims Boris Johnson squeezed a female journalist’s thigh.
Downing Street has denied the allegation made by Charlotte Edwardes, former editor of the Evening Standard’s “The Londoner” diary, who claimed Mr Johnson touched her leg during a private lunch at The Spectator magazine’s then-headquarters in 1999.
Mr Javid told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I am not getting drawn into that. If you are asking me, separately, whether a man – whoever they are – should be touching a woman’s knee without her permission, of course not, I think everyone knows that, that is clear.
“But I’m not commenting on these personal allegations.”
