Seeing Prime Minister Johnson’s fiancee trending on Twitter with the hashtag #CarrieAntoinette, I recalled the old saying of Sir James Goldmsith ‘When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.’ Though Miss Symonds and her boyfriend have not yet married, last week has seen Carrie slide from the seaside-postcard stereotype of sexy blonde man-catcher (the first unmarried consort of a British prime minister to move into Number Ten) to the equally hackneyed cliche of Bossy Battle-Axe - She Who Must Be Obeyed.
Boris Undone?
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