Boris Johnson is not a good role model for children, according to a top government adviser who is known as Britain’s strictest headmistress.
Katharine Birbalsingh, chair of the social mobility commission, told Sky News’s Beth Rigby Interviews that from his personal life to his messy hairstyle, the three-times married prime minister causes her to “raise an eyebrow”.
She added that while she did not know all the details of the partygate scandal it did make her pause and think “I certainly would never be able to put him up and say, be like him”.
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Ms Birbalsingh rose to prominence when, as an inner London teacher, she addressed the Conservative party conference in 2010 to say the education system was broken and that it kept “poor children poor” – upsetting some in the teaching profession but winning a standing ovation from Tories.
She went on to co-found Michaela Community School in Wembley,…
