Kate Maltby, who claims Damian Green made inappropriate advances to her, says she told a senior Downing Street aide about his behaviour in 2016.<\/p>\n
The MP, who denies the claims, was sacked from the cabinet on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
This came after an inquiry found he had broken the ministerial code over “misleading” statements after pornography was found on his computer.<\/p>\n
Downing Street has denied that Theresa May knew anything about Ms Maltby’s allegations.<\/p>\n
A No 10 source said the PM has said “everyone should be able to work in politics without fear or harassment”.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Thursday, Mrs May reiterated her personal “sadness” at sacking her close ally Mr Green.<\/p>\n
But the prime minister said it was “absolutely right” that the first secretary of state had apologised to Ms Maltby.<\/p>\n
The writer Ms Maltby made her claims in an article in the Times last month.<\/p>\n
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The Cabinet Office investigation into Mr Green was prompted by her allegations that Mr Green had “fleetingly” touched her knee in a pub in 2015, and in 2016 sent her a “suggestive” text message.<\/p>\n
The inquiry was later widened to include the claims about legal pornography being discovered on his computer after a police raid on his Commons office in 2008.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the inquiry, which concluded her evidence was “plausible”, Ms Maltby told the BBC that said she had not told many people about the alleged incident at the time – except her parents – as she “wondered if it was a one-off”.<\/p>\n
“Eventually I spoke to a very senior and long serving aide of Theresa May,” she added.<\/p>\n
When giving evidence to the inquiry, she told its head, Sue Gray, that Downing Street was aware of her allegations “to the best of my knowledge”.<\/p>\n
“I was aware that he was the deputy prime minister and I was aware that No 10 knew about it.”<\/p>\n
‘Story about power’<\/p>\n
Ms Maltby said she had never called for Mr Green’s sacking, but wrote her article because she wanted to change the culture of Downing Street.<\/p>\n
“This whole story has been about power,” she said. “Damian Green became a very very powerful person.<\/p>\n
“I was aware that there seemed to be improper mixing of mentorship and sexual advance within the Conservative party in his case.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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