In 2017 he staged a “big event” at the UN General Assembly in New York to discuss the matter, and invited Harry Potter star and women’s rights campaigner Emma Watson on the advice of his officials. “For some reason she turned me down,” Johnson wrote. Never one to take rejection on the chin, he adds: “She later turned her wrath on J.K Rowling herself, over the ridiculous issue of whether women can have penises, so I felt I was in good company.” In 2021, Emma Watson was one of 450 signatories on an open letter to Boris Johnson, calling for more women on the UK’s COP26 leadership team.
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