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Boris Johnson could say that of Michael Corleone in the third part of the Godfather saga: "Just when I thought I was out, they put me back in," the mobster complained of his enemies. Although in the case of the former British prime minister it is usually he who jumps back into the pond, usually because of scandals as unedifying as the battle that he and his wife Carrie currently have against the couple's former nanny.
Johnson, always eager to return to the political front line – and take revenge on Rishi Sunak, whom he still considers the main cause of his fall – had taken a position in recent weeks against the two main political issues in the public debate in the United Kingdom: the retreat of the current prime minister in his promises against climate change and the planned cuts in the plans of high-speed trains. in the north of the country, Johnson's great promise. What all the tabloid newspapers talk about, however, is nannygate, the battle of Theresa Dawes (59 years old) against the Johnson couple for the arbitrary and unfair way, according to her, in which she was fired. It happened just two weeks after she was hired to care for little Frank Alfred Odysseus, the couple's third child, born on July 5.
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Dawes says that, when she had only been in the position for three days, Carrie Johnson returned home from the hospital, called an Uber, and told her that she had 15 minutes to pack her suitcase and leave the house. The former nanny told the story to The Sunday Mirror, as well as the reason why, according to her, she had been fired with intemperate boxes. The day the little boy was born, Johnson returned to the house euphoric and invited the nanny to "soak the head" of the newborn. "It was a beautiful, hot day. Boris came home, went out to the terrace and opened a bottle of wine – a very cold rosé," Dawes told the tabloid. "He asked me to join him, to toast little Frank and tell me how Carrie and the baby were doing and when they were coming home. That kind of thing," the former Johnson employee explained.
Someone saw them both enjoying that wine: Carrie's mother, who allegedly told her daughter. The next day, when the former communications adviser of the Conservative Party returned to her home, with a clearly irritated air, she passed by without hardly greeting Dawes and asked where her mother was, before heading to the children's room.
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"I was dumbfounded," says the former nanny, when Johnson's wife told her to leave. Carrie's reason was somewhat twisted. According to Dawes, she was still upset that the same nanny had told her, two weeks earlier during the job interview, that the couple she had previously served celebrated Johnson's resignation over the partygate scandal, the parties banned in Downing Street during the lockdown. "I went to the kitchen to talk to Boris and said, 'I'm sorry if I offended you.' But I didn't know what to answer. She said, 'I don't know what to say, she's very affected by hormones, she just had a child. I can't control it," the former prime minister stammered. Dawes says that Carrie's reason was simply an excuse, and that what really irritated her was the idea that her husband was already having a drink alone with the new domestic worker.
The couple — they married by surprise in May 2021 — have denied all the allegations through a spokesman, and accuse the nanny of trying to extract more money from the dismissal. The contract was for three months, Dawes says, and he has threatened to take legal action to demand full payment for that period plus damages. "It is disappointing to see someone abuse a position of trust and make up a false story for financial gain," the Johnsons said.
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Dawes is aware, like the rest of the British people, of the hundreds of thousands of pounds Johnson has earned, simply by his speeches, since leaving Downing Street. And it is striking that the new scandal jumps to the press at the moment when the former prime minister comes to light again to attack the Sunak government. But his adventures and adventures accumulated over decades have the result that, regardless of the possible political maneuvers that hide behind the new episode, no one doubts that the comments of the former prime minister to his former nanny in the kitchen sound one hundred percent pure Johnson.
