Irons not happy with the PC brigade

HOLLYWOOD star Jeremy Irons has hit out at political correctness, suggesting that women do not need to use the law to “deal with it” if a man places a wandering hand on her bottom.

The Oscar-winner said that a mountain of legislation had been created by politicians with an excess of time on their hands.

Irons, 62, a self-confessed smoking “addict”, said: “It’s gone too far. There are too many people in power with too little to do, so they churn out laws to justify their jobs.

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