These things did happen and I had indeed learnt how to deal with them.” “It didn’t occur to me to report the incident, I was fine, after all, and who on earth would I report it to? I had learnt my lesson only too well. She added: “I wasn’t traumatised, I was cross, but by the next day it had become an anecdote, The Day I Was Groped in No 10 – an account of male delusion. Goodwin said that he then dropped his hand and “laughed nervously” and she left “in what can only be called high dudgeon”. I looked at the hand and then in my best Lady Bracknell voice said, ‘Are you actually touching my breast?’” At the end of the meeting we both stood up and the official, to my astonishment, put his hand on my breast. “I attempted to turn the conversation to turning exports into unmissable TV. Then to my surprise he put his feet on my chair (we were sitting side by side) and said that my sunglasses made me look like a Bond girl,” Goodwin wrote in the Radio Times. “The official, who was a few years younger than me, showed me into a room dominated by a portrait of Mrs T and we sat at a table carved, he told me, from one piece of wood. The Downing Street incident occurred after Goodwin met the official at a dinner and he followed up with an email to invite her to a meeting to discuss an idea for a television programme. She revealed the incident in an article for the Radio Times in which she also said that when she was 15 a guard on a train in London put his hands between her legs.

The comments from Goodwin, 55, added to the sexual harassment allegations in Westminster and the media industry, which have cost Michael Fallon his job as defence secretary, with investigations under way into alleged inappropriate conduct by Damian Green, the first secretary of state, and Mark Garnier, the international trade minister. It is understood he was an official during Cameron’s tenure in government – which lasted from 2010 to 2016. Goodwin declined to name the official but said he was a few years younger than her.

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