When a minister is needed to feed the ever-restive Tory beast with some red meat, you could do a lot worse than Chris Grayling. The tribunes of the anti-European, anti-gay marriage cohort looked to him for some reassurance that the Government had not all turned cuddly. And the Justice Secretary, no slouch in playing to the right-wing gallery, did not disappo […]
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Boris Johnson’s ‘recklessness’ about pregnancy and the feelings of others when committing ‘extramarital adulterous liaisons’ raises questions about his fitness for public office. That was the conclusion of an extraordinary judgment by the Appeal Court this week: that his ‘reckless’ attitude to the women and children involved is a matter of public interest th […]