Rachel Reeves has demanded that pictures of men by male artists are removed from the state room in No. 11 Downing Street in the latest misandrist move from a so-called ‘progressive’ Government. The Telegraph has the story.
The Chancellor has reportedly imposed a new female-only rule on the decor, meaning that all artworks on display in the state room must be “of a woman or by a woman”.
The aim is to celebrate “amazing” female figures, but a Tory source branded the move “pathetic gesture politics”.
It comes just three weeks after Sir Keir Starmer had a portrait of Margaret Thatcher removed from her former study in No 10, sparking claims by the Conservative Party that he has “got a problem with women”.
He later said he took down the painting because he doesn’t like pictures of people staring down at him, and prefers landscapes.
According to reports in the Guardian and the Daily Mail, Ms Reeves told an all-female reception at No. 11 this week: “This is King James behind me, but next week the artwork in this room is going to change.
“Every picture in this room is either going to be of a woman or by a woman – and we’re also going to have a statue in this room of Millicent Fawcett, who did so much for the rights of women.”
Small in itself, it is nonetheless symbolic, telling us something worrying about the Chancellor’s idea of ‘equality’: away with the men, bring in the women.
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