Daniel Korski has quit the race to run London after a sexual misconduct allegation
TV producer Daisy Goodwin alleged this week that Korski groped her during a meeting in Downing Street in 2013 when he was a special advisor under David Cameron.
He has consistently denied the allegations and in a statement released this afternoon said
I categorically deny the allegation against me. Nothing was ever put to me formally ten years ago. Nor seven years ago when the allegation was alluded to. No investigation has ever taken place. I have been clear I would welcome and constructively participate in any investigation.
“the pressure on my family because of this false and unproven allegation and the inability to get a hearing for my message of ‘The London Dream’ makes it impossible for my campaign to carry on.” adding that “the news agenda is becoming a distraction from the race and the Conservative Party.”
Earlier today on the Radio 4 Today programme Goodwin said
“Since I wrote my piece, I have been contacted by other women with some very interesting stories, which clearly I can’t talk about for legal reasons, but I feel entirely justified in having written the piece and naming him.”
