Commons Speaker to seek meeting with Mail on Sunday editor over what Boris Johnson calls ‘sexist tripe’
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Boris Johnson has threatened to unleash “the terrors of the earth” on the Conservative MP who made misogynistic claims about Angela Rayner, as the Commons Speaker said he would seek a meeting with the Mail on Sunday editor.
The prime minister hit out at the “sexist, misogynistic tripe” in the Mail on Sunday, which ran claims from an anonymous Tory MP that Rayner deliberately tried to distract Johnson in the House of Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs.
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