The pictures of 30-year-old Charlotte Owen, fully ermined up and being ceremonially invested into an almost unimaginably cushy job, quite literally for life, really do appear to have touched a nerve with the nation.
I think it is fair to say that few events, even in the last mad decade, have registered such a high reading on my WhatsApp barometer. Old friends, new friends and semi-friends have all been in touch to inform me of their anger at this constitutional outrage.
It’s prompted endless, sordid speculation and dissent – even among Boris Johnson’s friends and allies. Owen received the title when the No 1 Boris supporter, Nadine Dorries, did not.
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