Childcare can be a contentious issue at the best of times. So Mr S was intrigued to read of reports that Boris and Carrie Johnson have fallen out with their ex-nanny, Theresa Dawes. She claims that she was unfairly dismissed three days into the job after having a drink with the former PM while his wife was still in hospital with their third child.
In allegations described as ‘untrue’ by Johnson’s spokesman, Dawes, 59, said that she was given 15 minutes to pack her bags by Carrie Johnson the day after she returned to the couple’s Oxfordshire home this summer. When she went to speak to the former Tory leader about her treatment, he allegedly told her that his wife was ‘hormonal’, adding: ‘It’s out of my control.’
Dawes made the claims in an interview with the Sunday Mirror. Dawes said that she had been hired on a three-month contract to work for the couple before the birth of their third child, Frank Alfred Odysseus, who was born on July 5.
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