‘SEXIST old dinosaurs who are afraid of intelligent women’ – that’s the headline on a riposte by the Mail on Sunday’s Katie Hind to a demand by the Bow Group for an inquiry into the role of Carrie Symonds in the Government. However, it would seem that in her ‘passionate’ defence of Boris Johnson’s fiancée, whom she ‘knows and admires’, Ms Hind, the paper’s showbusiness editor, has somewhat missed the point.
She accuses the Bow Group, a conservative think tank, of attacking Ms Symonds on gendered grounds – that she’s ‘a pretty blonde with a penchant for a nice, colourful frock’. In fact, she is an unelected and unaccountable figure who appears to be taking a dangerously central role in the running of the country.