His press secretary ignores a lifetime of chronicled sexism to contort the truth about her employer
An unusual tolerance for the unbelievable and contemptible was always going to be an essential qualification for anyone willing to become Boris Johnson’s press secretary. But Allegra Stratton, the former journalist who has for some reason accepted this role, has already exceeded expectations.
A presumption that she might struggle, given an earlier acquaintance with professional accuracy, with the regular exculpation of a serial fabulist, looked misplaced last week as Stratton threw herself into her work. Twenty times she insisted that, despite having been found out in a significant new fabrication at PMQs, her employer had nothing for which to apologise.
