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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Catherine Bennett

The wife of ‘Sir Stanley’ couldn’t tolerate his abuse and nor should the rest of us

Stanley Johnson
Stanley Johnson: ‘No necessity for perceptible regret’. Photograph: Mark Thomas/Rex/Shutterstock

Since it’s not often that the domestic violence community enjoys official recognition, the knighthood proposed by Boris Johnson for the breaker of his late mother’s nose, Stanley Johnson, should be welcome to at least some people outside the family.

Would it be unreasonable for his fellow perpetrators of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) to interpret Stanley’s honour, still more optimistically, as evidence that the Tory party now appreciates that its 2021 Domestic Abuse Act was totally over the top? The purported aim of that legislation being, first of all, to: “Raise awareness and understanding about the devastating impact of domestic abuse on victims and their families.”

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