.... "I start from the position that I don't think Government should tell people, I don't think the Government should tell women, what they should be wearing.
"I think it's for women to make a choice about what clothes they wish to wear, if they wish to wear a veil that is for a woman to make a choice."
For crying out loud. This is a so-called Conservative, a top one at that. She thinks this is a fashion issue? Actually, not quite.
It's worse than that. She is clearly and self-consciously threading her grovelling through the, "it's a woman's right to choose" paradigm that is one of the siren calls of the political Left especially on the abortion issue, on which we have no strong views by the way. [The Commentator, 17 September] Read more