So suffused in in her left-liberal attitudes is Maitlis that she appears to think it axiomatic that anyone who identifies as a Conservative is by definition unfit to be part of the BBC's board.
Thus proving the point about the BBC mindset.
Feminism, in all its iterations, is about women wanting to keep tabs on what other women are up to. And if they aren't in some way trying to "smash the patriarchy" those women are bad women. Gender & trans ideology has been, to date, the most successful mechanism toward this goal