Daniel Korski, a former No 10 adviser or “spad” who made the shortlist to be the Conservative Party’s candidate for next year’s London mayoral race, denied groping TV producer and writer Daisy Goodwin at a meeting in Downing Street “in the strongest possible terms”. Astonished, I said loudly, ‘Are you really touching my breast?’ The spad sprang away from me and I left. I was a successful award-winning TV producer with 40 or so people working for me; this was not behaviour that I would have tolerated in my office. I may not even look like a traditional conservative. “But now the spad who groped me, aka Daniel Korski, is running to be the Tory candidate for mayor of London.

Source: The Times June 27, 2023 14:20 UTC