No. 10 Admits He Spoke To The Times Before Carrie Johnson S Story Came Out Political News
In a news release on Saturday morning, the newspaper reported that Mr. Johnson tried to hire Carrie Johnson, then Carrie Simonts, as his chief of staff at the State Department in 2018. However, the report was drawn from later editions of the newspaper, raising questions about whether No. 10 put pressure on the newspaper’s publishers. On Monday, the prime minister’s spokesman acknowledged that there had been contact between Downing Street and the Times before and after the story was published....