Boris Johnson’s Arcuri scandal is about public funds, not private life Zoe Williams

almost 6 years in The guardian

That the businesswoman’s TV interview made no sense is not the point: the question isn’t whether the affair happened
There were a lot of denials in Jennifer Arcuri’s interview on Monday morning with Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan – who single-handedly tried to play both good cop and bad cop. But few of them were meaningful.
Arcuri denied that the “friends” who said she’d had an affair with Boris Johnson were actually her friends. She denied that she would have “gabbed” to them, even had they been, and denied that any of the public money flowing into her successive startups was influenced by her relationship with the then mayor of London, whatever that may have been. Both have refused to deny that it had been a sexual relationship. Continue reading...

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