‘There’s nothing wrong with being woke,’ declares Boris Johnson
As recently as Sunday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick decried ‘town hall militants and woke worthies’.
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Boris Johnson has declared “there’s nothing wrong with being woke”.
Labour’s shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy had accused the Prime Minister of having “managed to trash” the UK’s reputation as a values-driven nation.
In the interview with the Guardian she praised Joe Biden as a “woke guy” who defends trans rights and the Black Lives Matter movement, saying he offered a possible model for electoral success for the Labour Party.
Mr Johnson was later asked if he considered Mr Biden to be woke – defined as being alert to societal injustices – as he was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, taking over from Donald Trump.
