Last summer, about the time gossip surfaced about her relationship with Johnson, she moved on from the Tory party to an entirely different and strikingly unpolitical role as an adviser for Yet, of all the dramatic changes of tone Johnson has brought with him as prime minister, perhaps the most remarkable and the least observed aspect of the handover of power is that the traditional role of Downing Street as the arbiter of public respectability has been, well, redefined. Tim Rooke/Shutterstock. Carrie Symonds (c), girlfriend of Boris Johnson, watches as he gives a speech outside No 10 in July.
In its own way, it represents a reversal as startling, if not as significant, as the US turn from Obama to Trump.All Downing Street wives find they have a role that the media requires them to inhabit. And not many prime ministers' wives have felt able to speak out candidly, he adds - although plain-speaking in private can be beneficial.He writes: "This was Clementine Churchill's great strength, notably in 1940 when Winston's popularity and prestige were at their height and she wrote him an outspoken letter saying, in effect, that power was going to his head. As per wiki, Boris Johnson’s new girlfriend was born to her parents Matthew Symonds and Josephine Mcaffee. The prime minister’s role, according to the writer and Johnson biographer Andrew Gimson is “to marshall the forces of respectability ... to uphold, both in his or her own person and as leader of the government, the standards of behaviour which command the support of respectable people”.The question now is whether asking a media grown rich on prurience to accept Symonds as first girlfriend is just another appeal for tolerance of Johnson exceptionalism or something more. The couple posed together on the steps of No 10 after Mr Johnson's thumping election win
These are external links and will open in a new window Cherie Blair had her own high-flying career, later describing husband Tony as a "hands-on dad"
Theresa May's husband, Philip, was considered a quiet but supportive type of partner The list of prime ministerial philandering is long and almost certainly far from complete. The others saw a decline in standards.The Profumo affair was the first modern sex scandal. Could it be that his fans in the media-owning classes see him not as the admirable epitome of the new norm of social liberalism, but rather as the vehicle for the restoration of a status quo in which the private morality of powerful politicians is a matter only for them?That might depend on where the bar for this particular type of “respectability” really lies.
"When human rights lawyer and part-time judge Cherie Blair entered No 10 with husband Tony, never before had a prime ministerial consort attracted such a high profile.She once phoned TV show Richard and Judy to complain that her husband never buys her flowers, as well as speaking out on policy issues. As any new mum can attest, it's not easy to find the time (or inclination) to apply make-up in … Ms Symonds and Mr Johnson were pictured in August at their first public engagement Tony and Cherie Blair had Leo in May 2000, while David and Samantha Cameron had daughter Florence in 2010. View Gallery. But, after the December election, the couple walked in together.The couple live in the flat above No 11 Downing Street.
She also has experience of working as a Special Adviser to Sajid Javid and John Whittingdale. But, even if she wants to, she will struggle to stay invisible.Being the prime ministerial wife (in very distinct opposition to being the PM’s husband) has probably always been a performance art, and the challenge is how to escape it. Carrie comes from a successful background as her father Matthew Symonds was co-founder of The Independent newspaper and her mother Josephine Mcaffee a successful media lawyer.
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