The Business Secretary has said Boris Johnson’s wife is “under scrutiny in a way that perhaps other prime ministers’ spouses weren’t” but claimed reporting about her was not sexist.
Carrie Johnson’s role in her husband’s premiership has often been under the spotlight, and over the weekend a biography of Mrs Johnson by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft was serialised in the Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday, which sought to look at her alleged influence on the PM’s decision-making.
