“Boris Johnson’s response to the inquiry into Mark Field, the MP who grabbed a female activist, is telling – and chilling”
than see the UK crash out with no proper withdrawal agreement. In the Johnson era, with its cabinet packed with hardline Brexiteers and grand pronouncements about the opportunities of no deal, such sacrilege is unlikely to be tolerated.Johnson may well believe that it’s not his responsibility to oversee an inquiry into an MP who he didn’t appoint, and who he has already removed from government.
But this isn’t just about the dry mechanics of government, the length of Johnson’s to-do list, or the slightness of his majority. It’s also about symbolism and optics – two things that our new PM, with his armour of affectations and penchant for grand gestures when there’s a camera nearby, has always seemed to understand instinctively.
And deliberately or not, Johnson is sending a clear and worrying message about his priorities as PM by dropping the inquiry into Field’s conduct. He is signalling that he doesn’t really care about holding men to account when they behave aggressively, violently or threateningly towards women, and would rather dismiss such incidents as someone else’s problem.
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