Carrie ‘demanded a taxpayer-funded £538 gold-coloured iPad’: Insiders claim PM’s wife ‘spent her whole six-month maternity cover for Sajid Javid’s SPAD trying to get free Apple gadget’
- Carrie Johnson ‘tried to get a taxpayer-funded £538 gold-coloured iPad’
- Happened while she worked at Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- This purchase, at public expense, was ‘eventually approved by email’
Carrie Johnson ‘tried to get a taxpayer-funded £538 gold-coloured iPad‘ while she was an advisor in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, according to claims in Lord Ashcroft’s new biography.
Bombshell claims suggest Ms Johnson spent her six months as Sajid Javid’s adviser in the Department for Communities and Local Government ‘trying to get the department to buy her a gold-coloured iPad’.
This purchase, at public expense, was ‘eventually approved by email from the Secretary of State’s private office,’ according to a source quoted in Lord Ashcroft’s biography.
Carrie Johnson ‘tried to get a taxpayer-funded £538 gold-coloured iPad’ while she was an advisor in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, according to claims
A Freedom of Information request about the purchase was not answered for three months, even though such requests should normally be dealt with in 20 working days. The delay was attributed to ‘public interest’ reasons.
But when the response confirmed that ‘one iPad with case was purchased for a Special Adviser at a price of £538’.
Bombshell new claims have also suggested that Carrie Johnson forced out a rising star within the Tory party who was working with her then-fiancé Boris Johnson over fears she was ‘too attractive and intelligent’.
Downing Street insiders, quoted in the explosive new biography written by Lord Ashcroft, suggested that Ms Johnson wielded huge power within Whitehall and warned that ‘if she doesn’t like you, there can be big consequences’.
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