As for Boris Johnson, I look back with a morbid incredulity at what that baby grew up to be. It’s a not particularly good joke to surprise people with the fact that I am one of the many women to have seen him naked.

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Source, in full

From an edited extract of An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals (Atlantic Books, 2023), as reproduced in "Polly Toynbee: what my privileged start in life taught me about the British class system" The Guardian (20 May 2023)

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Edmund Fawcett was the brother of Charlotte Johnson Wahl. Frances Beatrice Fawcett (née Lowe, 1913–2001) was their mother.

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