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Boris já tem um trajecto residual de dois divórcios e,
entretanto, seis filhos … Quanto tempo irá Boris aguentar-se na liderança do
Partido Conservador e ‘resolver’ a ‘teia’ do Brexit, que está a criar uma
divisão inédita na sociedade Britânica, e mesmo, ameaças separatistas da Escócia e do País de Gales,
junto à possibilidade de reunificação das duas Irlandas.
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Boris Johnson's neighbour: 'There was no response, so we
called the police'
Exclusive: neighbour says he hopes anyone would do same
after hearing smashing and screaming in early hours
Jim Waterson
Sat 22 Jun 2019 13.34 BST Last modified on Sat 22 Jun 2019
14.02 BST
The neighbour who called the police after hearing a row
between Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds said they dialled 999 as a
last resort after receiving no response from individuals in the flat.
After hearing a row involving smashing and screaming in the
early hours of Friday morning, the individual says they discussed how to
respond with their partner, out of concern for the safety of those involved.
“The very last thing I’d heard was a loud bang and
screaming. First I knocked on their door to make sure everyone was OK,” they
told the Guardian on Saturday.
“There was no response at all, I couldn’t hear anything. I
knocked three times. Then I went back, discussed further that there was no
response and we decided to call the police.”
The neighbour, who was waiting up late for a takeaway
delivery, described loud shouting that could be heard throughout the vicinity,
an account backed up by other residents in the area.
Another neighbour, a nursery teacher who lives with her
husband and four-year-old son in the top flat next door, told the Times that
she could hear “shouting and screaming”.
Fatimah, 32, said: “It was really loud, loud enough to make
me turn down the TV and see what was going on. I could hear shouting and
screaming from a lady, she sounded really angry. There was a man’s voice too,
but he was much calmer and he was telling her to calm down but she was still
chucking things about,” she told the Times.
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“It went on for about 10 minutes. I’ve never heard anything
like it. I was considering calling the police but then a [police] van and car
came.”
The neighbour who called the police said: “I’d heard the
screaming and shouting that sounded like it was from the street before I went
to get my food. It became clear as I returned that it was coming from inside.”
They said that they began recording “purely out of
instinct”.
“I had my phone on me because I’d gone to pick up a
Deliveroo so I was on the phone to the Deliveroo driver. If I saw someone who I
thought was in danger on the street I would start filming while seeking help. I
was inside my own flat hearing shouting, screaming and banging so I pressed
record.”
“It felt like if there was something dangerous happening
that having a recording of it would be important as evidence. The screaming
maxed out the volume of the microphone on my phone through two doors, which is
why we became concerned.”
“We called the police and they called back to say thank you
for everything that you’d done and luckily no one was hurt.”
“The first shouting could
be heard from my own living room. I have never heard any other noise in the
building, other than the front door opening and closing. People upstairs and on
the street could hear it.”
They also said they had no involvement with low-key protests
about Johnson’s presence from other local residents, despite claims online that
neighbours had been hostile.
“I have not put anything up. I saw that a poster had been
put on his car and obviously saw the same posters across the street. People
locally know that Boris Johnson has been there but I have not made any protest
about Boris Johnson being a neighbour.”
They said they hoped anyone would call the police if they
failed to receive a response from a neighbour after hearing such an
altercation.
“I am not a member of a political party. I’m frustrated
politically by the last few years across the board but this was nothing to do
with politics, I would hope that anybody that I know - friends, neighbours -
would have their back if they heard something that sounded scary and
frightening,” they said.
“I would like to think that we have a duty to look after and
look out for neighbours.
“I am glad that I recorded everything of the event. I’m glad
that the police were satisfied that nothing happened. They said ‘there’s been a
row’ but nobody was hurt.”
“It will be relevant and it has to be relevant … but we have
to be careful about what aspects of character really matter. Clearly
reliability and honesty are important things.”
Speaking on the programme, Sonia Purnell, an author of a
critical biography of the Tory politician called Just Boris: A Tale of Blond
Ambition, who has worked by him, said knowing his character was important.
She said: “We have a right to know what the character of our
future prime minister is like, imagine that job… that is an unbelievably
pressured job … You have to have an equilibrium, a clear head and stability to
cope with that.” ( OVOODOCORVO )
Boris Johnson to attend leadership hustings after row with
partner
Questions over ex-foreign secretary’s private life dominate
battle for No 10
Sarah Marsh
@sloumarsh
Sat 22 Jun 2019 11.52 BST Last modified on Sat 22 Jun 2019
12.05 BST
Boris Johnson will attend Tory leadership hustings while
embroiled in a scandal after police were called to his home after a loud
altercation with his partner.
The Guardian revealed that an argument between Johnson and
his partner, Carrie Symonds, a former Conservative party head of press, was
heard by a neighbour who called the police and recorded the row.
They said they heard a woman screaming followed by slamming
and banging. At one point Symonds could be heard telling Johnson to “get off
me” and “get out of my flat”.
As Johnson prepared to go head-to-head with Jeremy Hunt in
Birmingham for the role of Conservative leader, in the first runoff hustings on
Saturday, questions over his private life dominated the battle for Downing
Street.
Tory former attorney general Dominic Grieve told BBC Radio
4’s Today programme that he wasn’t in a position to comment on the specifics of
the story but when asked a more general question, said character mattered in
the leadership race.
“It will be relevant and it has to be relevant … but we have
to be careful about what aspects of character really matter. Clearly
reliability and honesty are important things.”
Speaking on the programme, Sonia Purnell, an author of a
critical biography of the Tory politician called Just Boris: A Tale of Blond
Ambition, who has worked by him, said knowing his character was important.
She said: “We have a right to know what the character of our
future prime minister is like, imagine that job… that is an unbelievably
pressured job … You have to have an equilibrium, a clear head and stability to
cope with that.”
Others, however, have sprung to the defence of the
leadership hopeful. Daily Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson said: “What right
do we have to listen in to a private lovers’ tiff?”
She told the Today programme: “The Tory members won’t care
about this. They’ve been waiting since 2016 to vote for Boris Johnson.”
In a tweet, security minister Ben Wallace, who is a close
ally of Johnson, said: “What a non-story, ‘couple have row’. Lefty neighbours
give recording to Guardian. Newspaper reaches new low is a better news story.”
The tweet was later deleted.
Tim Sinclair, a member of the Stratford-on-Avon
Conservatives and a candidate in recent local elections, said he expects the
incident will “puff up and blow away”.
“I suspect that this isn’t going to be a good story for him,
he wouldn’t have ideally wanted it,” he told BBC Newsnight. “However,
ironically despite his background, he’s actually regarded as a man of the
people purely because he acts normally – he speaks his mind, he does things and
behaves in ways that normal people can look at.”
When contacted by the Guardian on Friday, police initially
said they had no record of a domestic incident at the address. However, after
they received the case number and reference number, as well as identification
markings of the vehicles that were called out, they issued a statement saying:
“Police attended and spoke to all occupants of the address,
who were all safe and well. There were no offences or concerns apparent to the
officers and there was no cause for police action,” a spokesperson said.
Johnson’s office was contacted earlier on Friday for comment
but had still not responded by the time of publication.
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