Downing Street insisted No 10 was a safe environment for women following claims former aide Daniel Korski groped TV producer and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin in the building around a decade ago. Downing Street refused to be drawn on the individual case or whether there would be a Cabinet Office investigation into Mr Korski, who is now seeking to be the Tory candidate for London mayor. “Astonished, I said loudly, ‘Are you really touching my breast?’ The spad sprang away from me and I left. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Korski has “clearly got to answer” questions about his alleged behaviour. “I think there will be a level of concern that yet again it is a sort of pattern of behaviour in politics.”

Source: The Times June 27, 2023 15:33 UTC