The former Tory aide at the centre of Boris Johnson’s marriage split missed the first day in her new job as the storm over their relationship intensified.
Carrie Symonds was supposed to start at Bloomberg yesterday but is still in hiding as she faces questions about how close she got to the ex Foreign Secretary.
Her start date as an oceans specialist at the City giant was postponed at her request, the company said last night.
Miss Symonds abruptly quit her role as Conservative HQ director of communications three weeks ago.
Tory Party sources have said she was forced out of her role at headquarters because of ‘performance’ issues.
Carrie Symonds, left, and Boris Johnson, right, were photographed in February and she has postponed the start of her new job as she finds herself at the centre of his marriage split
Carrie was linked to the former Foreign Secretary after it was claimed that he had developed a 'strong friendship' with her in the months leading up to his separation from wife Marina
Mr Johnson’s wife, Marina Wheeler, is said to be preparing to serve divorce papers on him imminently, citing his ‘adultery’ for the breakdown of their 25-year marriage.
A friend said: ‘The papers are coming imminently. They were due within the next fortnight but Marina’s just had enough.’
Miss Symonds was officially a Tory party cheerleader, charged with promoting Theresa May’s vision for Brexit.
But behind the scenes, Downing Street feared Miss Symonds was growing too close to Mrs May’s biggest critic, Mr Johnson, prompting concerns of a conflict of interest.
In addition, she was highly visible on social media and made statements about public policy.
She has often written positive comments about Mr Johnson, last year posting a link to one of his speeches with the comment: ‘This is really worth watching.’
Despite her back office role, she regularly urged action on issues such as environmental scandals and on the prospect of black cab rapist John Worboys being released on parole earlier this year after less than a decade in jail.
At the time, she wrote it was ‘brilliant news’ when an outcry over the Worboys case resulted in the public being able to see details of why a criminal was being released early.
As news of her involvement with Mr Johnson broke on Saturday, she tweeted: ‘Sea otters have the thickest fur of all animals.’
Her cryptic message came after Mr Johnson mentioned otters in his newspaper column three weeks ago.
Marina Wheeler, 54, (left) learned of the ex-foreign secretary's close relationship with 30-year-old Carrie Symonds after their marriage hit the rocks earlier this year
Ms Symonds (pictured on the bonnet of a car outside Westminster) is barely five years older than fashion student Lara, the eldest of his four children with second wife Marina Wheeler
Yesterday Miss Symonds was in hiding as Westminster speculation centred on her, following Mr Johnson’s split from his wife Marina Wheeler.
As Foreign Secretary, Mr Johnson repeatedly took time out of Brexit to pursue his ‘strong friendship’ with Miss Symonds, who is only five years older than his eldest daughter Lara – who has since branded her father a ‘selfish b******’.
Mr Johnson, 54, sent a ‘ministerial car’ to collect Miss Symonds from a wedding, bombarded her with playful texts, attended her 30th birthday, and wined and dined her on Valentine’s Day as his ‘peeved’ police protection officers sat by, it was claimed.
His wife, also 54, finally tired of his serial unfaithfulness after discovering some of his lurid texts, and the couple announced their divorce on Friday.
Mr Johnson’s marital breakdown erupted around the time of the crucial Chequers deal in July.
Yesterday there was anger that not only was Mr Johnson himself distracted from delivering Brexit, but he was spending too much time with the Tory party communications chief.
But Mr Johnson’s allies poured scorn on Downing Street.
Brexiteer MP Nadine Dorries said: ‘This is all a bullying attempt by No 10 to destroy Boris ahead of the party conference and it’s been happening all over the summer. I think Carrie was collateral damage. It’s because she was close to the Brexiteers. Part of that strategy of attack was to get rid of her.
She was given the nickname 'Apples' on account of her luscious cheeks and has been described as charming, infectiously good fun, popular with men and women and passionate about politics
A friend described Ms Symonds as 'a person for whom the word vivacious could have been invented. She's highly intelligent, very pretty, very sexy'
She attended £20,000-a-year Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith, west London, where she excelled
‘I’m very sure she was ousted. She is a lovely girl who everyone speaks very highly of and she was excellent at her job. CCHQ feels her loss keenly.’
A Tory MP added: ‘This is how Theresa May’s team deals with anyone who gets in their way. It’s hardly a coincidence Carrie Symonds had to leave her job.’
Another senior Tory said: ‘You can see how it might look in No 10 if they discover the woman in charge of communications for the party is in a relationship with the Prime Minister’s biggest critic. There is potentially a question of divided loyalties and that might explain why she left.’
And another source added: ‘She was sometimes shockingly indiscreet, and critical of Theresa May, and would actively promote Boris’s interests to journalists ahead of May’s. Central Office got wind of that and thought she had dual loyalties. She jumped before she was pushed.’
Friends of Miss Symonds, who advised Sajid Javid when he was communities secretary, say she felt she had been penalised for her links to ‘Team Boris’. And a Tory insider insisted her exit was not linked to her relationship with Mr Johnson or to her friendships with other leading Brexiteers, such as Zac Goldsmith, John Whittingdale and Michael Gove.
‘The reason Carrie left had nothing to do with her private life,’ the source claimed. ‘Yes, she’s a Brexiteer who is friends with a lot of other Brexiteers, but there are quite a few Brexiteers inside No 10. After all, the Government is taking Britain out of the EU.’
These are among the findings of a Survation poll for the Daily Mail, the first official survey conducted since Mr Johnson’s divorce from Marina Wheeler was announced
Colleagues first noticed Mr Johnson had eyes for the aide when they attended the Tory annual Black and White fundraising ball in February. They were pictured giggling together as they left.
Friends claim they go to extraordinary lengths to see each other during and after work. They said their ‘strong relationship’ had been an open secret for several months.
Now living in North London, Miss Wheeler was said by friends to have borrowed a Brexit catchphrase. One said: ‘She’s taken control of this. She’s not a victim. No one who knows her recognises that description. This is about Marina taking back control.’
Neither Mr Johnson nor Miss Symonds have commented.
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