BORIS Johnson has tonight slammed claims that he groped a female journalist’s thigh at a dinner party back in 1999.
Charlotte Edwardes last night accused Boris of squeezing her so hard she flinched at the table.
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Downing Street denied the story today, with a spokesperson saying: “This allegation is untrue.”
Writing in The Sunday Times, Edwardes, said: “Under the table I feel Johnson’s hand on my thigh.
“He gives it a squeeze. His hand is high up my leg and he has enough flesh beneath his fingers to make me sit suddenly upright.”
Edwardes says at the time she was a young newspaper reporter writing occasional articles for the right-wing magazine.
She also claimed to have confided in the “young woman” on his other side after the “louche, loud, risqué” lunch.
The woman reportedly responded, saying: “Oh God, he did exactly the same to me”.
And it comes at the same time as ex-model Jennifer Arcuri was said to have told several pals that she did have an affair with Boris.
The PM this morning denied he’d done anything wrong – and said there was “no impropriety” that went on in taxpayer funded grants being given to her business.
He was not asked about the allegations about Ms Edwardes.
After a difficult day for Boris, this afternoon ex-Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt came out to bat for the PM.
She said he was a “decent person” and “cares a great deal about women and girls”.
described the PM as a “Frank Spencer in a china shop” but insisted he was a “decent person”.
Ms Mordaunt said: “He is not the individual that he is quite often painted as being.
“He occasionally has the style of Frank Spencer in a china shop.
“But he’s a decent person. I think he cares a great deal about women and girls.
“And certainly that was my experience when he was foreign secretary.”
And Redditch MP Rachel Maclean said: “The original feminists talked about ‘deeds, not words’.
“And on that basis, I absolutely judge the Prime Minister to be a feminist.
“And if you look at his record, and what he’s done for women – I would point to the record on female genital mutilation, he has been the foremost champion of putting resources into (tackling) that around the world.”
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Other Tories have refused to comment on Boris’ private life.
“Boris has never lectured other people about their private lives,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock said earlier.
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