Jacob Rees-Mogg put the matter in a balanced – if somewhat orotund – way: he did not consider that a burka added to any woman’s “pulchritude”. Yet it was not the state’s job to ordain what people could wear. Quite so: a garment may indeed be called unattractive without its being against the law.
The all-covering Islamic garment is not popular with the general public in this country and is not considered “pulchritudinous”. Boris Johnson has got into much trouble in making that point, with characteristic hyperbole.
