Boris Johnson referred to police watchdog over links to American businesswoman

Image: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Images Image: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Images BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson has been referred to the police complaints body to assess whether he should face a criminal investigation over his links with American businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri.

The move was greeted with fury in Downing Street, which denounced the referral as a “nakedly political put-up job” on the eve of the Tory Party conference in Manchester.A senior Government source said no evidence had been provided to support the allegations made, and that the Prime Minister had been given no opportunity to respond prior to the release of a GLA press statement late on Friday.

A No 10 spokesman said: “The Prime Minister, as mayor of London, did a huge amount of work when selling our capital city around the world, beating the drum for London and the UK.Shadow chancellor John McDonnell tweeted: “It’s important to note that this was a decision by the GLA monitoring officer, who is a completely, independent non-political official.”

Earlier Johnson said that he would comply with an order by the London Assembly to provide details of his links with Ms Arcuri, although he insisted they were “barking up the wrong tree”.

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