Is the Prime Minister's shtick wearing thin?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

During the last general election campaign, Boris Johnson's persona as the improvisational, brash, comedian was endearing to many voters and those in his party. But with multiple weeks of own goals and bad press is this attitude beginning to look careless rather than amusing?

'People are now looking out for the next banana skin' - James Forsyth

Isabel Hardman talks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls about the PM's position in the wake Owen Paterson affair and the current migrant crossings in the channel.

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management, award-winning wealth managers who go above and beyond to support and guide you.
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0:17.0	Hello and welcome to you, Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.
0:26.1	I'm Isabel Hardman and I'm joined by Katie Bores and James Forsyth.
0:30.1	Well, it's the start of another week for Boris Johnson, possibly another hectic and difficult week.
0:36.8	He's been speaking to the CBI this morning
0:39.3	and was talking about Pepper Pig World, among other things.
0:43.3	Yesterday I went, as we all must,
0:47.3	to Pepper Pig World.
0:50.3	I don't know if you've been to Pepper Pig World.
0:52.3	Who's been to Pants I've been to Pepper Pig World. Who's been to Pansomily or who's been to Pepper Pig World?
0:55.0	Not enough.
0:57.0	I was, well, it's fantastic. I was a bit hazy what I would find at Pepper Pig World, but I loved it.
1:03.0	And Pepper Pig World is very much my kind of place. It has a very safe streets, discipline in schools, heavy emphasis on new mass transit systems,
1:20.6	I noticed, even if they're a bit stereotypical about Daddy Pig. But the real lesson for me,
1:26.6	going to Pepper Pig World, I'm surprised you
1:28.4	haven't been that, was about the power of UK creativity. James, what was the main meat of the
1:35.4	Prime Minister's speech? I think the thing that everyone is focusing on is that he lost his place
1:39.6	in the speech at one point. There's then a kind of, wow, it goes, forgive me, forgive me,
1:43.1	when he tries to find the place in the speech.
1:45.6	But the speech very much fits with a kind of pattern of Boris Johnson's speeches, which I think become
1:50.2	particularly pronounced since his Tory Party conference speech, which is they are very much, very Boris Johnson riffs,
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