HARRIET HARMAN’S suggestion of leniency for women who kill their abusive husbands has obviously got under the skin of the aforementioned James Gray, Conservative MP for North Wiltshire, who famously cheated on his wife Sarah while she was battling breast cancer. After Hattie pitched her idea of giving minorities a leg-up in the workplace, the caddish Tory spluttered: “Presumably black, disabled, gay people will be much more likely to get a job than an equally qualified person who is male, white, middle-class and heterosexual. No doubt, if you throw in private education and Oxbridge you wouldn’t stand a chance…”
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