Boris Johnson Bows Over Difficult Questions About Gender Equality In Government

Boris Johnson was unable to say how many women in the highest positions would be enough to ensure adequate gender representation when he was burned out by Conservative colleagues on equality in cabinet, during a tense hearing of the liaison committee.

He said he believed there were enough women to help make decisions about the coronavirus, and that having women in the room made a huge difference in the nature of the decisions made. I recognize that this may sound like a vaguely sexist thing to say, but it is very important, said Mr. Johnson.

Caroline Nokes, Chair of the Women and Equality Committee, asked who the PM had given her opinion on reopening schools at the same time as the retail sector, where she said that 60% of employees were women and how the move could affect the availability of child care.

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Mr. Johnson said: I think your question, Caroline, is whether or not we have enough female representation at the top of government to help us inform these decisions, and I really think we have.

The number 10 chief of policy is Munira Mirza, the electoral manifesto we both successfully fought for was written by two women and the most important appointments we have made in recent weeks … have also been women.

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After two more questions about the role of equality experts in government decision-making, Ms. Nokes asked Mr. Johnson: You made the distinction between there are many women and enough women, how many this enough?

The Prime Minister, seeming to realize that he had been snooked, is heard saying Oh boy and laughing nervously, before recovering and adding: This is a question on which I am not competent to pronounce. One of the other Members present at the virtual hearing was also heard to laugh briefly in response to the targeted questioning.

Ms. Nokes went on to ask: Is it not 50%? before Sir Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the committee, told the Prime Minister that gender equality was not a joke.

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Estonian freelance ballet dancer and choreographer Eve Mutso performs her daily fitness routine near her home in Glasgow, Scotland

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Senior nurse Jan Ferguson watches the work of art “Theater of Dott’s” by Kate Ive, inspired by Professor Norman Dott and his theaters of neurosurgery at the Western General from 1960 to 2019. It is one of many works on the walls of the clinical neuroscience department of the NHS Lothians (DCN), which has been moved to a new specially designed house on the Petite France campus in Edinburgh.

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This is not the case, the Prime Minister quickly accepted. All I’m saying, Caroline, is that it’s extremely important to us as conservatives and that we have more than 50 percent would be great, we have a large number of women MPs of great talent, including you – even in the House of Commons now, believe, and never forget, its only Conservative party that produced two women prime ministers.

Let’s not start with all of this, said Sir Bernard. Better not, said Ms. Nokes, who discovered that she had been sacked as Minister of Immigration by Mr. Johnson in 2019 when a reporter tweeted the news.

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