Johnson gets married as a Catholic demonstrating his familiar ‘flexible’ approach to life
Carrie Symonds and Boris Johnson got married on 29th May at the(Catholic) Westminster Cathedral in Victoria St.
The marriage has excited some comment on the basis of how Johnson who has been previously married twice was allowed to get married again in the Church. It appears the answer is that since Johnson wasn’t a Catholic in those marriages they don’t count but being brought up as a Catholic does.
I’m not religious so I leave such doctrinal matters to others. Such things are hardly unknown on the left however. A small left-wing party some years back deciding it no longer wanted certain people as members simply returned the subs they had paid and told them they had never been members anyway.
Johnson was brought up as a Catholic by his mother- who knows what religion if any Stanley professes. However when he got to Eton he decided he’d transfer to the Church of England where presumably he remained until recently.
There is a long standing ruling class prejudice against Catholics dating back to the 1701 Act of Settlement and it remains the case that the Monarch cant be a Catholic as they head up the C of E. Being a Catholic presumably struck the young Johnson as an unnecessary bar to progress.
Given he managed to be both for and then against the EU ultimately backing the latter on the basis of personal expediency yesterday’s marriage was firmly in character for Johnson.
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