Munira Mirza is an unlikely Tory. And yet today she is so close to Boris Johnson that he says she is one of the five women he most admires
Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park, one of the organisers, Imarn 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.
Ms Mirza says that the question of intellectual freedom was at the heart of her conversion to the right: “I realised very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favour of was free speech—that there was an intolerance about different ideas and opinions.” Equally important is the idea that individuals are masters of their own fate.
Ms Mirza is in the vanguard of this revolution. She rejects beliefs widely accepted in “the blob”. Her first publication for, “Culture Vultures”, argued that cultural institutions are short-changing working-class pupils by emphasising “relevance” rather than high culture. Her second, “Living Apart Together”, argued that multiculturalism fostered Islamist extremism by encouraging Muslims to see themselves as a separate group, and she rejects the idea that British society is structurally racist.
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