Boris Johnson had one key message.

You must stay at home.

It was a short speech, but it will change your way of life.

You should not be meeting friends.

If your friends ask you to meet, you should say no.

This is a short bonus episode just to bring you up to speed on the speech and what it tells us about Boris Johnson's leadership,

with two Times columnist who have followed his career for decades, Matthew Paris and Daniel Finkelstein.

This is Stories of our times, from the Times and the Sunday Times. I'm

Mandvein Rana. I made sure that my children were around the television set. I tried to get them to watch big political moments.

Daniel Finkelstein is a columnist for the Times.

There they were watching with us and that was quite a moment and they appreciated its

significance obviously. We will immediately close all shops

selling non-essential goods including clothing and electronic stores and other premises, including libraries, playgrounds.

What did you make of the speech?

Well, I always think there are these two Borises, the mayor and the columnist.

The columnist is Leister. Boris's, the mayor and the columnist.

The columnist is, likes to play everything for laughs, takes the idea of counterintuitive libertarianism very seriously.

If you read a book of Boris's columns,

you'll find they're full of him railing against

you know the smallest regulation.

And there is also however something quite different

to that Boris the mayor somebody who wants to be I think above party who wants to

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