The woman inside Downing Street who Boris fired gives her verdict on the ex-PM

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Nicknamed “the Gazelle” for her elegant 6ft stature, Ms Watson worked alongside Mr Johnson’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings – and, like her colleague, she was fired by Mr Johnson. Ms Watson also: claimed the former prime minister was “defined by Partygate” revealed that illicit encounters were commonplace at party conferences warned that No 10 was the kind of building where it was difficult not to “rub up against each other” The Partygate scandal erupted again when it emerged that Mr Johnson had been referred to police over fresh claims he broke lockdown rules. Boris’s former aide gives him 5/10 moral rating Asked how many people could face questions if a police investigation is launched, Ms Watson said the figure could be “dozens”. When asked what score she would give the former prime minister out of 10 for morality, she said: “Five.” And she warned that he would never be able to escape the Partygate scandal.