#Carriegate – tell the truth, media hacks: Johnson DID deny trying to get his now-wife a top FO job
The UK’s news sites were full of stories saying Boris Johnson had avoided a question on whether he tried to give his now-wife Carrie a Foreign Office job, at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday (June 22).
This is not true.
Here’s what happened:
Labour MP Chris Elmore asked Johnson: “Has he ever considered the appointment of his current spouse to a government post or to any organisation in the working of the royal households? Be honest, prime minister, yes or no?”
To this, Johnson replied: “I know why the party opposite wants to talk about nonexistent jobs, in the media.”
He was very clearly denying that he had tried to get Mrs Johnson a job by saying that no such job existed.
If, in the future, evidence shows that he did try to get her into a job – that one did, in fact, exist – then he will have lied to Parliament again.
This Writer hopes Parliament’s Privileges committee is paying careful attention and asks the right questions.
Source: PM avoids denying he attempted to get Carrie Johnson top Foreign Office job
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