Conquer Club

Amber Rudd has launched a scathing attack on the “ghastly” European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, criticising his behaviour with women.

The work and pensions secretary hit out after footage from last week’s European council meeting in Brussels showed him playing with a woman’s hair.

Rudd, a former minister for women and equalities, branded the behaviour “grotesque” in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. She said he would probably have been subject to an official complaint if it happened in the UK.

The Hastings MP said Juncker “is ghastly. What I minded before that were those pictures of the way he was holding the prime minister. I did not like that.”

Discussing the incident with the woman’s hair on his arrival at the European council meeting, she added: “It’s grotesque. I mean, if that happened in our parliament I hope there would be a formal complaint.

Juncker has repeatedly denied he has an alcohol problem. Schinas said of the comments from Dijsselbloem, “This matter has been clarified between the two presidents. We are not in the business of reopening issues that predated President Juncker’s appointment to the European Commission.”

But incidents such as the welcome ceremony for the EU summit in Latvia in 2015, during which Juncker awkwardly slapped and kissed arriving dignitaries, have done little to silence the talk about his sometimes eccentric behavior.

mrswdk wrote:What do you reckon: is he the inebriated granddad at the party, or Clinton falling into her medical evac vehicle?