Bagehot | Revolutionary conservative

摘要

DURING A RECENT Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park, one of the organisers, Imam Ayton, led the crowd in chanting "Munira Mirza must go". "She does not believe in what we believe in," proclaimed Ms Ayton. "New narrative today!" As director of Number 10's in-house think-tank, the Policy Unit, the unbeliever in question has hitherto been an obscure figure in Boris Johnson's high command, albeit an important one. She has been content to let Dominic Cummings soak up the media's attention while building up the most impressive Conservative policy team since Margaret Thatcher's day. But Boris Johnson's decision to give her the job of establishing a new government commission on racial inequalities immediately transformed her into a lightning rod.