British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has written to opposition Labor deputy leader Angela Rayner to distance himself from misogynistic comments allegedly made by his Conservative colleagues, accusing her of using sexual tactics to distract him in the House of Commons, reports Monday. “The Telegraph”.
This newspaper, related to the ruling party, explains that Johnson wrote to Rayner on Sunday to assure him that these allegations, published the same day by the sensationalist “The Mail on Sunday”, were not made “in his name”.
The head of the Government also condemned them on his Twitter account. “As much as I disagree with Rayner on almost all political issues, I respect her as an MP and deplore the misogyny directed against her anonymously,” the Tory leader said yesterday.
The alleged attacks on Rayner, 42, and how they were presented in the “Mail” are the focus of political debate today in the United Kingdom, where convictions are raining down on the alleged perpetrators and the journalist, Glen Owen, who compared him to a famous scene from “Basic Instinct” (1992), starring Sharon Stone.
In his article, Owen writes that many Conservative MPs believe that Labor politics crosses and uncrosses its legs at weekly government scrutiny sessions to “distract” Johnson, in the style of Stone in the 1992 film.
“She knows she can’t compete with Boris’s debate training at Oxford, but she has other skills that he lacks,” the quoted anonymous sources state.
“She herself has admitted it when we have had a few drinks on the terrace of the Commons,” they add.
The text affirms that the confrontations between Johnson and Rayner -which take place when she replaces the leader of the Labor Party, Keir Starmer- are “a highlight of the parliamentary calendar”, by contrasting the “MP, educated in public school” with Johnson, educated at Eton, an elite private school.
In response to the article, Rayner yesterday rejected the “lies” published about her and accused Johnson’s acolytes of “spreading perverted slanders desperate to save their skins.”
“I have been accused of a ‘plot’ to ‘distract’ a defenseless Prime Minister: for being a woman, for having legs and for wearing clothes,” she lamented on Twitter.
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