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Her boyfriend, Boris Johnson, is now our Prime Minister, however simply who’s the lady about to change into the primary ‘First Girlfriend’ of Downing Road? Let’s discover out.
She’s a high-achiever… and a glass-ceiling breaker
The 31-year-old, South-London-born Carrie, studied theatre research and historical past of artwork at Warwick College and left with a first-class diploma. She joined Conservative HQ in 2009 as a press officer and swiftly rose up by the ranks – as particular advisor to each Zac Goldsmith and Sajid Javid – to change into one of many youngest-ever Conservative Social gathering communications administrators at 29. Claims that she was ousted due to her connection to Boris have been challenged by fellow Tory MPS, similar to Nadine Dorries, who went on file as saying Carrie was superb at her job.
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She’s a survivor… and a fighter
At 19, Carrie was one of many victims of black cab serial rapist John Worboys. She has been bravely candid about her expertise – each publicly and throughout the trial – and campaigned onerous, and efficiently, for his parole to be denied again in 2018. She launched a media marketing campaign and labored to help a judicial assessment to hunt to alter the foundations on releasing harmful prisoners. Her efforts inspired extra ladies to come back ahead and Worboys now faces one other 4 counts of sexual assault. He stays in jail.
She had three Tory management candidates at her 30th
You wait years to get a Tory bigwig at your get together, after which three come directly. In March final 12 months, Sajid Javid, Michael Gove and, after all, Boris, all attended Carrie’s 30th, elevating eyebrows amongst Tory HQ. However regardless of the controversy round it, the incident gave us these two unforgettable anecdotes: Boris danced “energetically” to ABBA and Michael Gove carried out a pro-Boris rap primarily based on the musical Hamilton. Yeah, we will’t get that picture out of our minds both…
She’s an environmentalist
Carrie beforehand labored with infamous inexperienced campaigner Zac Goldsmith and at the moment works for media large Bloomberg, heading up their ecological initiative, Vibrant Oceans. She has often been seen enacting her beliefs – most not too long ago at an anti-whaling protest exterior the Japanese embassy – and her Twitter feed is littered (no pun meant) with diatribes in opposition to plastic air pollution.
She’s a feminist
Say what you’ll about Boris’s views on ladies; it’s debatable that Carrie shouldn’t be seen as an extension of her boyfriend’s views. She is an avowed feminist and is shut mates with FGM activist and OBE-holding Nimco Ali; who’s as feminist as they arrive. Many have stated she is quietly steering her gaffe-prone different half away from his extra regressive tendencies in terms of ladies’s rights. Good luck Carrie…
She would be the first First Girlfriend of Downing Road
Boris is the primary PM (since Hugh Grant in Love Really, obvs) to enter No10 as an single man. Effectively, technically he’s nonetheless married to his estranged spouse Marina Wheeler, however as soon as his divorce is finalised, hearsay has it he intends to make his girlfriend, 24 years his junior, his third spouse. If he does, he would be the first PM to marry whereas in Downing Road for 250 years.
She calls Boris out
Within the now well-known leaked alternate from a home the couple had of their South London flat again in June; Carrie was heard lamenting Bojo’s carelessness. After he ruined a settee by spilling pink wine (impolite); she allegedly retorted; “You simply don’t look after something since you’re spoilt. You don’t have any look after cash or something.”
Let’s hope she launches the identical assault on him subsequent time he suggests a No Deal Brexit.
