Telling women what to do and what to wear is a popular pastime.

Interesting piece in the New Statesman - I'm not sure if the internet's rapid shrinking into a series of my-country-only islands will stop people outside some small pool from reading this. If so, it's by Paul Mason, who suggests that people like Boris Johnson (and before him Enoch Powell and Margaret Thatcher) are tools of others with an agenda to cause race hatred.
Quote from the article: "Johnson may have calculated that it was better to express mild Islamophobia in order to head off its more extreme forms; to own xenophobia and racism within the Tory party as a way of preventing more violent and extreme expressions of it.
"If so, he was only following the same catastrophic impulse that led Enoch Powell to make his “rivers of blood” speech in 1968, and Margaret Thatcher to express her concern that the country was being “swamped by people with a different culture” ten years later. On both occasions, the use of the racist dog whistle was sold as a way of isolating and defeating fascism; both fed it."
I couldn't personally agree that Boris Johnson is "Someone with a bit of backbone" - he seems to change with the wind.