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Watch: Maybot’s awkward International Women’s Day interview

Happy International Women’s Day. To mark the occasion, there are several events taking place across Westminster this evening – with Liz Truss opening up the Treasury to leading businesswomen.

So, how would the Prime Minister like to mark the occasion? That’s the question that left Theresa May flummoxed today in an interview with ITV. The Maybot appeared rather taken aback when Julie Etchingham innocently asked what May would do to let her ‘hair down’ on her ‘perfect get-together’ with her ‘girlfriends’:

Time for a reboot?

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