‘Why is it always the woman who is traduced?” says Jennifer Arcuri. “I’m not some pole-dancing floozy who just wanted his money. I’m a 34-year-old businesswoman and tech entrepreneur who has a husband and baby. Boris Johnson doesn’t get asked 100 times whether he has had an affair with me. I’ve been chased by the press around the world and it is the only question I am asked.”
Jennifer, or Jen as everyone seems to call her, is right. In the nearly three hours we spend together, it’s soon clear that she isn’t some deranged “IT support”; she is clever, articulate, funny, engaging and enraged. It’s easy to see why the former mayor of London would have wanted to spend time with her but also