Thread by @mikebutcher

The “ITV Exposure” documentary on Sunday at 11pm will be a 1hr investigation into the Boris Johnson & Jennifer Arcuri story, by award-winning journalist John Ware. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

I don’t know why it’s scheduled in such a late, “graveyard” slot, but I should imagine the documentary makers opted for any slot they could get from ITV, so they could get the piece out while the election was still on and the issue was still relevant.

“Jennifer Arcuri: ‘I’ve kept Johnson’s secrets – now he’s cast me aside like a one-night stand’ -
The businesswoman tells ITV show that she is heartbroken, humiliated – and that the PM hangs up the phone on her”
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

“Jennifer Arcuri: Boris Johnson cast me aside as if I were a gremlin - ITV News” When Boris Met Jennifer will air on ITV at 11.05pm on Sunday November 17.
(If you can still handle another car crash interview after last night)
itv.com/news/2019-11-1…

#ITVexposure “evidence suggest Johnson failed to declare an interest in Arcuri while her businesses benefited” ... filmmakers are “satisfied” they had an affair for 4 years.

“Arcuri got the Mayor’s attention...” he called her within hours of meeting. #ITVexposure

The tech industry had tried to the mayor’s attention prior to Arcuri’s intervention with the mayor, but had “drawn a blank” (me) #ITVexposure

“She’d say thinks like ‘I have Boris wrapped around my little finger. And we’d all laugh...” (me). “It sounds exactly like the sort of thing I would say” - Arcuri #ITVexposure

Was she in a relationship with him at this stage? She won’t answer. Filmmakers say their research has “left them in no doubt” that they had an affair for “at least” 4 years. #ITVexposure

“Once again she turned to Johnson” to do a Google Hangout, to link London with Silicon Valley. “For Johnson, there was more than the possibility of hanging out” #ITVexposure

Innotech Summit made “a lot of money” says Arcuri. Others (like me) were wondering why the Mayor only seemed to turn up to Arcuri’s events. “He just really likes Innotech” said one sponsor. #ITVexposure

They switched from meeting in public places to her “office”, actually her apartment. Filmmakers say they also met in hotel rooms.

She attended Tory party conferences and was referred to by organisers as “his girl” #ITVexposure

London & Partners proposed a £200m investment fund, supported by the Mayor and proposed on Arcuri’s Innotech webcasts #ITVexposure

Years into the relationship Johnson had still not declared any kind of relationship with Arcuri. She attended trade delegations with Johnson. She and had a fight with him when there was the possibility of their affair coming out. #ITVexposure

Johnson stopped her coming to City Hall. She still attended a Singapore trade mission. Apparently ‘a reporter’ (not me, wasn’t there) was persuaded there was no affair going on.

Johnson could still have declared the relationship at this point. He did neither. #ITVexposure

Arcuri went on the develop “Hacker House” making cyber more accessible. She won contracts in her own right, BUT she got a kick start by - yes - attending ANOTHER trade mission with the Major, when she’d been initially rejected for the trip. #itvexposure

STILL Arcuri / her business did not appears on the register of the Mayo’s interests.

In Feb 2016 she moved to the North West. Johnson “kept calling her”.

By the end of 2016 she was pregnant by her future husband. #itvexposure

Johnson was going to run for Tory Leader. She was contacted by his people to see if she had “a plan”. She moved to the US. #itvexposure

While she was in the US this year, the story of their relationship came out.

She tried to contact Johnson but was brushed-off by his aides.

She refuses to answer if he was in love with her. #itvexposure

There’s a lot of content here I can’t keep up with but TLDR is that she was basically dumped by Johnson, despite the fact she didn’t trash him in public after the story came out. “Shame on him for not answering the phone” she says. No 10 sent a cursory no comment. #itvexposure

Final part: She says the whole affair has caused “chaos and destruction” to her and her business and “sheer disappointment”. “I am the collateral damage... the PM hasn’t been affected... I’m left picking up the pieces of my name, integrity, character and business” #ITVexposure

She he have declared her / her business as a formal interest while mayor? “If he’d declared me, would I have preferred that to avoid all this humiliation? Absolutely” #ITVexposure

Had Johnson called her privately? Yes. He hung up without saying anything. “I simply asked, why did you block me? I wanted a simple acknowledgement.” He hung up.

“I was brushed off as if I was a Kennedy girlfriend showing up to the Whitehouse switchboard.” #ITVexposure

“I felt humiliated. I was told ‘there are bigger things at stake, never mind you’. He’s too busy for you.”

If Boris was in front of her what would she say? “I would say I’ve been nothing but loyal, faithful, supportive and a true confidante of yours.” #ITVexposure

“I’ve kept your secrets. I’ve been your fiend. And I don’t understand why you’ve blocked me and ignore me as if I was some fleeting one night stand or some girl you picked up in a bar. Because I wasn’t, and you know that.” #TVexposure #JenniferArcuri

“And I’m terribly heartbroken by the way you have cast me aside like I’m some gremlin.” #ITVexposure #JenniferArcuri

Filmmaker: Johnson “knew the rules and not for the first time may have been unable to resist breaking them”

The End.

Well that’s that.

Meanwhile, as previous reports indicate, Arcuri is now in London allegedly negotiating reality TV contracts. So this is not the last Boris Johnson will be hearing of her...

#ITVexposure #JenniferArcuri