"In 2006, politician (and later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Boris Johnson criticized the company after a staff member mistakenly attempted to separate him from his own children on a flight.He stated that those who create or defend such policies "fail to understand the terrible damage that is done by this system of presuming guilt in the entire male population just because of the tendencies of a tiny minority", linking such discrimination to the reduced number of male teachers and therefore lower achievement in schools.