Boris Johnson’s burqa remarks are no surprise – his misogyny dates well back | Robert Verkaik

The seeds of his bigotry were sown in Eton and cultivated at Oxford, forming an outlook that is central to his politics

Boris Johnson’s comparison of women to inanimate objects such as letterboxes betrays a kind of misogyny that has become an all too familiar feature of his alpha-male politics.

This is the man who in his first flush of reporting at the Telegraph in 1996 wrote an article about the Labour conference in Blackpool, which he devoted to reviewing the quality of “the hot totty” delegates who were present.

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