Boris Johnson’s government has said a lot of iffy, dissembling things in recent months. On everything from the deranged prioritisation of cats over people during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to all those lockdown ‘work meetings’ that looked suspiciously like parties, officials haven’t exactly been 100 per cent truthful. But easily the most whacky, implausible claim Boris’s crumbling government has made of late is that Carrie Johnson does not wield much influence in Downing Street; that Boris’s infamously woke wife is really just a demure consort who keeps her views very much to herself. On the bullshitometer, that’s up there with a previous No10 incumbent’s blather about ‘45 minutes’.
The laughable idea that Carrie Antoinette zips her lip on political issues is coming from Cabinet members who have been sent out into the media to push back against a new book – First Lady by Lord Ashcroft. It’s an explosive tome. It depicts Carrie as basically a woke Imelda Marcos, stomping through Downing Street in her no doubt rented high-fashion shoes and twisting and shaping the agenda in her own posh SJW image. The book says Carrie exerts a huge influence in Downing Street. Apparently she has even used Boris’s phone to text people, essentially ‘impersonating’ the PM. Officials report having phone chats with Boris and hearing Carrie ‘whispering prompts’ to him in the background. The Woke Whisperer, if you like, mesmerising the PM into adopting the cranky worldview of the time-rich virtue-signallers who are legion in the Sloane Ranger set.
Who knows if everything in the book is true? A spokesperson for Carrie says it’s all ‘vile fabrications’. And government high-ups have been busy shooting it down. It’s not true that Carrie has ‘undue influence’ in Downing Street, says Kwasi Kwarteng (‘undue’ is doing a lot of work there), and it’s ‘sexist’ to suggest otherwise, says Sajid Javid (that old chestnut). Yet the idea that Carrie is just your average Downing Street consort, like a female Denis Thatcher, quiet, hands off and content with pouring a scotch for the stressed-out PM, is clearly bunkum of the highest kind. The Tory leadership really must have a low view of voters if they think we’ll buy this BS.
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