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‘Don’t leave EU debate to pair of old Johnsons’
WOMEN must not be cast aside while “middle-aged men with the same surname” lead the EU referendum debate, civil liberties campaigner Shami Chakrabarti warned yesterday.
The outgoing director of campaign group Liberty said it was important to ensure that discussions were not “dominated by people who are too much the same.”
Ms Chakrabarti singled out two male politicians on opposing sides of the debate, Boris Johnson and Alan Johnson, to make her point.
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