The former foreign secretary's views on women, ethnic minorities and gay people, are under the spotlight as he heads towards winning the contest to replace Theresa May as UK prime minister.
Evidence of Johnson's views towards women can be found throughout his career.
He added that:"Time and again the 'Tottymeter' has gone off as a young woman delegate mounts the rostrum." "The real reason why Blackpool is buzzing with glamorous women is surely that they scent victory. It is not the great smell of Brut that makes John Prescott attractive. It is the whiff of power. With the fickleness of their sex, they are following the polls."Johnson also brought his admiration for"hot totty" into the office, pinning a Pirelli calendar to his desk, which featured nude photography, despite complaints from female colleagues.
"You come round in a panic, to find a lustrous pair of black eyes staring down at you. Relax. It's only Kimberly [Quinn, who was then the Spectator's publisher] with some helpful suggestions for boosting circulation."This attitude towards women was carried over into his writing. As Sonia Purnell, a former colleague of Johnson, notes in her"In his writing women were portrayed as rather feeble 'blubbing blondes' or 'collapsing with emotion ...
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