Stanley Johnson, the father of Boris Johnson, has been accused of inappropriately touching a Conservative MP at a party conference.
Conservative MP Caroline Nokes told Sky News that Johnson had smacked her “on the backside about as hard as he could” at the event in Blackpool.
Nokes, a former minister and chair of the Women Equalities Select Committee, claimed the incident happened at a Conservative Party Conference in 2003.
The 49-year-old MP said the Prime Minister’s father, who was at the time a Tory candidate for Teignbridge, slapped her when she was in her early 30s.
Nokes, now the MP for Romsey and Southampton North, was the Conservative candidate for the seat at the time of the alleged incident.
She told Sky News: “I can remember a really prominent man, at the time the Conservative candidate for Teignbridge in Devon, smacking me on the backside about as hard as he could and going, ‘oh, Romsey, you’ve got a lovely seat’.”
Johnson told Sky he had “no recollection” of Ms Nokes.
Johnson said: “I have no recollection of Caroline Nokes at all, but there you go. And no reply... Hey ho, good luck and thanks.”
Nokes has served as a minister for Home affairs, Work and Pensions and in the Cabinet Office.
Johnson, a former Member of the European Parliament, has never been elected as an MP.
Nokes told a panel on Sky TV: “I would have been in my early 30s so old enough, old enough to call it out.”
She told the programme “I didn’t do anything, and I feel ashamed by that.”
She said now it is an “absolute duty” to call it out as women shouldn’t have to put up with it, adding that it is necessary to be the “noisy, aggravating, aggressive woman in the room” because if a stand is not made then her daughter will be in the same position.
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