You can take the boy out of journalism but you can’t the journalism out of the boy. That’s the rule Prime Minister Boris Johnson proved yet again last night in his Oval Office press event with President Joe Biden.
Steerpike understands that the White House was not expecting the two leaders to field inquiries from the press. Yet the PM appeared to pressgang, as it were, the President into taking a couple of questions at the end of their statements – even if, in their thick masks, it was almost impossible to hear what they were actually saying…
‘Would it be ok if we had a couple of questions? Just a couple?’ asked Boris hopefully. ‘Good luck’ Biden shot back tartly. Harry Cole of the Sun and Beth Rigby of Sky News then both asked if Britain would be at the back of the queue when it came to a post-Brexit trade deal.
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