Carrie Johnson says PM’s enemies are targeting her in ‘brutal campaign’

The Independent says Carrie Johnson has insisted she “plays no role in Government” and has been targeted by “enemies” of the Prime Minister in a “brutal briefing campaign”.

The Prime Minister’s wife issued a rare statement through her spokesperson on Sunday evening, after a Cabinet minister suggested she was coming “under scrutiny in a way that perhaps other prime ministers’ spouses weren’t” in the past.

Mrs Johnson’s role in her husband’s premiership has been under the spotlight, and over the weekend a biography of the 33-year-old mother of two, by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft, was serialised in the Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday, which sought to look at her alleged influence on the PM’s decision-making.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/carrie-johnson-campaign-boris-enemies-b2009028.html