The editor of the Mail on Sunday has doubled down in the face of huge criticism by refusing to meet the Commons Speaker over the sexist report published about Angela Rayner. A piece over the weekend crudely suggested the Labour deputy leader and Ashton-under-Lyne MP had been trying to distract Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs in the House of Commons.
The article, which quoted an unnamed Conservative MP, attracted widespread condemnation from politicians and the public. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Commons Speaker, told MPs on Monday he had arranged a meeting with Mail on Sunday editor David Dillon following the outcry.
But in a response to the Speaker published in the Daily Mail today (April 27), Mr Dillon said he would not be attending. Instead, he suggested that journalists should 'not take instruction from officials of the House of Commons, however august they may be'.
