Top Tories back a peerage for trans row Prof

HOuNded out of her job for her feminist views in the trans debate, academic kathleen Stock is an archetypal victim of cancel culture.

Stock, who is gay and opposes ‘self id’ for trans people, which makes it easier for biological males to enter women-only spaces, was until recently Professor of Philosophy at Sussex university.

Then balaclava-wearing transrights activists forced her out of her job by running a vindictive campaign, brandishing signs demanding for her to resign and, they hoped, ending her career.

Yet Stock may have the last laugh. My moles tell me that a number of senior Tories are now lobbying downing Street to give her a peerage — even though the academic was hardly famous before the row put her at odds

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with the woke orthodoxy. One source says: ‘She could go in to the lords as an independent — her voice would be hugely important in the culture war.’ The move would be cheered by traditionalists as much as it would infuriate the Twitterati.

Yet would Boris Johnson ever get it past his wife Carrie?

Mrs J has consistently sided with lgBT pressure group Stonewall, which takes a diametrically opposed view from Stock and continues to insist that ‘trans women are women’.

Although the red benches are stuffed as it is, in my view this is one brave scholar who does deserve to ‘don’ the ermine.