Written by Staff Writer
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has become embroiled in his worst ever controversy following a series of newspaper revelations over his close ties to a business partner of convicted dodgy businessman Arron Banks.
In a report published Wednesday, the Daily Telegraph reported that Johnson held the same office of director of a data analytics company that Banks co-owns and that he received an offer for a head office in City of London from the business partner in March.
Banks is at the center of a political scandal that has erupted as a result of a dossier alleged to be based on details of his activities relating to the pro-Brexit campaign.
Johnson declined to comment to the Telegraph on whether he had entered into such an agreement with the company, but he said he knew nothing about Banks’ funding sources or whether they had “some connection” to Banks’ involvement in Brexit.
When the Telegraph revealed that Johnson had been connected to the same company that Banks had co-owning it “soon,” it was claimed by a press spokesman that the foreign secretary could no longer run for the Conservative Party leadership in 2020 and that his position within it had become untenable.
Johnson has been dogged by scandal throughout his career in Parliament but despite being connected to one of the Tory party’s most high-profile figures, he has always managed to emerge unscathed.