In recent speeches, Boris Johnson has cited Kermit the frog and James Bond, and drawn up on all manner of football analogies. Yet none of them were as widely panned as the one he gave to business leaders earlier this week, when he went on a long – and seemingly unscripted – riff about Peppa Pig. According to political scientists, the furore is a sign that cracks are beginning to show in his...
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Analysis
The Peppa problem: why did Boris Johnson’s CBI speech bomb so badly?
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