As heard on my @timesradio show this morning…

Boris Johnson took 4 minutes to answer a question from David at the press conference.

46 er seconds er of er it er was er this… pic.twitter.com/wzQJu5A02d

— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) January 5, 2022

Boris Johnson has invested in a very high quality and no doubt expensive suit and he looks a lot better for it. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to have helped his self-confidence for the above Times Radio interview when for a time he was barely coherent.

Just click the link in the Tweet and the 46 seconds that is played is really quite shocking.

I just wonder whether there is an issue here. I cannot recall any of his predecessors over the past half century being so lost for words.

We know he had a very bad experience with COVID last April and it could be that that is still impacting on him.

This all happens when Keir Starmer is self-isolating yet again.

Mike Smithson