British Prime Minister: Johnson denies harassment

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson deters a journalist's allegation that he sexually molested her twenty years ago. When asked if he had been reading about Charlotte Edwardes at a 1999 dinner as reported by her, Johnson said in a television interview on Monday: "No."

Johnson also denied that the allegation burdened since Sunday running annual convention of his conservative party in Manchester. What the public wants to hear is what they do for them and the country and what they do to unify the country, the head of government said.

Columnist Edwardes had written in The Sunday Times that Johnson groped her when he was editor of the magazine The Spectator. "Under the table, I feel Johnson's hand on my thigh, he pushes it," Edwardes wrote.

If the prime minister does not recollect the incident then clearly I have a better memory than he does https://t.co/pbcLJThkqP

Johnson's hand had touched her leg high up, he had touched the inside of her thigh. After lunch, she confided in another woman sitting on the other side of Johnson. This woman told her that Johnson had also touched her.

First, a spokesman for the Prime Minister had rejected the allegations of the journalist. "The claim is untrue," Johnson's office said. Edwardes then wrote on Twitter: "If the Prime Minister does not remember the incident, then I clearly have a better memory than him."