Where’s the evidence?
ALLEGATION 1:
Told a woman at a CBI conference in 2019 ‘that dress really suits your figure’.
HE SAYS: Admits it, but his swift apology was accepted.
ALLEGATION 2:
Touched a woman’s bottom at a CBI event in 2019.
HE SAYS: Denies the claim, explaining he was busy looking after the then Chancellor Philip Hammond, who was guest of honour.
ALLEGATION 3:
Remarked at a CBI event in 2021 that a woman’s dress made ‘it hard to concentrate on anything else’.
HE SAYS: His computerised personal diary shows that he was not even at the event.
ALLEGATION 4:
Patted a woman on the bottom at the 2022 Tesco AGM.
HE SAYS: Exhaustive inquiries and CCTV footage have yielded no evidence to support the claim. ‘I am innocent . . . and I think Tesco can prove it,’ he adds.
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