The US may not share Britain’s obsession with class – but it hates women every bit as much

Kamala Harris, the US vice-president, in San Francisco last week. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Rex/Shutterstock

You have to be careful about letting women into politics, you really do. You give them a few rights and then they start clamouring for more. Worse still, they start using their womanly wiles to get their way, crossing their legs in parliament and distracting great Oxbridge-educated statesmen from their trains of thought.

I speak, of course, of Angela Rayner. Labour’s deputy leader was accused by the Mail on Sunday (MoS) last week of a “Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris” by … moving her legs at work.