A better man
Another contrarian slams the door:
Boris Johnson’s top policy aide has quit over the PM’s false claim that Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute serial sex offender Jimmy Savile when he was director of public prosecutions.
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Munira Murza said the PM he should have apologised for the misleading remarks.
In her resignation letter, published by The Spectator, she wrote: “You are a better man than many of your detractors will ever understand, which is why it is so desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition.”
What’s funny about this is who she is.
Mirza, who quit over Boris Johnson’s false claim that Keir Starmer held back attempts to prosecute Jimmy Savile, was the official behind Downing Street’s much criticised report into racial disparities, which downplayed structural factors.
Contrarian, you see.
Her political journey has certainly been a long one. Born in Oldham in 1978 to parents who came to the UK from Pakistan, she went to her local comprehensive school and Oldham sixth form college before studying English at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Unlike Johnson, who was president of the Oxford Union and involved in Tory politics, Mirza was a student radical, becoming a member of the Revolutionary Communist party, contributing to its magazine Living Marxism.
There it is. She’s part of the RCP/Spiked crowd! The contrariest contrarians of all time, who turned as one from the RCP to…the Spiked tendency.
It seems quite common, that trek or sudden switch from the ideological left to the ideological right. But her letter is a good and damning one.
It seems that Johnson practised his remark about Savile beforehand and was advised not to use it, but did anyway. It was not an off-the-cuff angry remark, mistake or error in judgement, it was a premeditated smear. He said it despite being advised not to because he knew he’d get away with it and some of the mud would stick.
Ugh. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could exile Johnson and Trump to a tiny island somewhere cold? Where they could torture only each other?