Boris often simply speaks the truth, although many don't like to hear it.
Regarding his comments about poor single working mothers, and about women more widely having been 'socially Gestapoed' into the workplace, I agree with him.
He is not talking about highly paid career women who get a lot of job satisfaction and self-validation from their career and can afford high-quality child care. He means less well off women who are forced to work to live and he is also talking about the current expectation that women will work rather than bring up their children.
This has been encouraged by nursery subsidies, but lack of similar payments for SAHM, which is quite illogical. Totally ridiculous to farm your children out to strangers in a 1:8 or less adult:child ratio rather than bring them up properly yourself, but women need to be PAID for this independently of their partners.
Pushing women out into the workplace is probably because Govts. of all stripes want the tax receipts from the increased employment together with the greater number of nursery and childcare businesses.
Similarly with his 'burka' comments. This Telegraph column was actually a defence of women being entitled to wear what they like, contrasting with Denmark, which had banned it. He expressed his view that it could be oppressive in some circumstances and of what it looked like to him. However he defended the right to wear it.
The trouble is he generates these soundbites which are taken out of context and used against him.
@Waxonwaxoff0
The mention of picanninnies (and watermelon smiles) was in an anti-Imperialist, satirical article in the Telegraph in 2002, criticising Tony Blair for his globe-trotting White Saviour act as racist (and also criticising the Queen as head of the Commonwealth as pseudo-Imperialist). He deliberately used those words in the article as reflecting those values, as part of a progressive critique of Blair's grotesque and archaic act as 'Big White Chief', come to save the 'p.....'
These words have been taken out of context and used as a smear.
You should go back to the source yourself and not simply repeat the propaganda of others.