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How Peppa Pig caused Boris Johnson’s schtick to come unstuck

A few coats of gloss have come off Britain’s normally Teflon PM, but most Tories still back him to pull through.

London | “Is everything OK?” It was an unusual question for a TV reporter to put to Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a press doorstop, but somehow it seemed like the right one.

He had just come from delivering the traditional prime ministerial address to a conclave of the nation’s corporate chieftains, at the annual conference of the CBI – Britain’s equivalent of the Business Council of Australia. And he had seemed a bit off-colour.

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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