Attacks by PM’s ousted aide left new press chief in tears

Allegra Stratton breaks cover to contradict ‘false’ briefings over her appointment

Toby Helm Political editor and Michael Savage Policy editor

Sat 14 Nov 2020 22.14 GMT

The woman appointed by Boris Johnson to lead his daily press operations was left in tears on
Saturday after she claimed to have been the subject of negative briefings by a former No 10 official
who resigned last week and made a dramatic exit from Downing Street.

In an extraordinary escalation of feuding involving new and departing aides to Johnson, friends
of Allegra Stratton, the new press secretary to the prime minister, said she had been “in tears all
morning” as a result of what she believed were critical briefings by Johnson’s former director of
communications, Lee Cain.

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