The ministers covering women and equalities do have a view on the disappearance of topless Page 3 models, but the Prime Minister apparently doesn’t.
Today Nicky Morgan called the decision of The Sun to put something over at least a portion of the breasts of the women in its paper ‘a long overdue decision and marks a small but significant step towards improving media portrayal of women and girls. I very much hope it remains permanent’. Her Lib Dem colleague Jo Swinson said she was delighted that the old fashioned sexism of Page 3 could soon be a thing of the past’ and called on the newspaper’s editors ‘to consider whether parading women in bikinis is really a modern reflection of the contribution women make to society’.
But at this morning’s lobby briefing, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman declined to comment either way, simply preferring to say that ‘the Prime Minister always thinks that what newspapers publish is a matter for newspapers’.
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