“I’m proud to call Jamie a colleague. This is a brave statement that deserves the utmost admiration and respect. As a party, we will always be together and embrace people for what they are,” said Brandon Lewis, Northern Ireland Minister. “ The tweet was sent after a rally for Tory MPs, in which Boris Johnson allegedly made a joke about trans issues. Politico reports that the Prime Minister began his speech with this opening: “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, or as Keir Starmer would put it, people to whom women or men have been appointed at birth.”
“It simply came to our notice then. I’m not well’
In a lengthy statement on his official Twitter account, Wallis also revealed that he was raped last September. “A few months ago, in September, I ‘connected’ to someone I met on the Internet and when I chose to say ‘no’ based on not wearing a condom, he chose to rape me,” Wallis said. “I am not myself from this incident and I do not think I will ever recover. It is not something you never forget and it is not something you never go through.” “Things have dropped since then. I’m not well.”
