All eyes were on Theresa May as she eviscerated Jeremy Corbyn at her first Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday.
Well, almost all eyes.
Some were focused squarely on the crotch of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, dangerously exposed due to an unacceptable, disgraceful, heinous outbreak of manspreading.
Condemnation was swift and unstinting – both from the tribally Labour Daily Mirror, which noted his “terrible bench-manners”:
Boris Johnson was blatantly manspreading during PMQs. Busted.https://t.co/n0FyWlqtLC pic.twitter.com/DMRVxAw83A
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) July 20, 2016
And also from his former employer and consistent backer, the Daily Telegraph, which clutched its pearls hard as Boris “asserted his male privilege to the world” in a “classic example of sexism”:
Boris Johnson brought manspreading to Parliament https://t.co/vL5u0xVnKN pic.twitter.com/oD1XmN6SPS
— Telegraph Women (@TeleWonderWomen) July 21, 2016
Assorted hacks and campaigners also piled in:
Boris is manspreading https://t.co/aDOs5zrPzj
— Kate Allen (@_Kate_Allen) July 20, 2016
Nice bit of #manspreading from Boris there on #PMQs pic.twitter.com/ZtcA0T4Dxu
— rosie rogers (@rorogers123) July 20, 2016
REVEALED: Boris Johnson is an obscene manspreader https://t.co/QPhazRYmxU pic.twitter.com/TGrdXzZqLS
— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) July 20, 2016
I’m sure shrinking violet Home Secretary Amber Rudd, the senior Tory to Boris’s right, was grateful to be rescued by the white knights of the pernickety British media.
Meanwhile, Theresa May could feel legitimately aggrieved to have attention from her big moment in the Commons redirected to focus on a man.
Boris, we predict, will survive. And at any rate he can be glad his manspreading problem isn’t as bad as Bill Clinton’s.
