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Is the Prime Minister’s shtick wearing thin?

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During the last general election campaign, Boris Johnson’s persona as the improvisational, brash, comedian was endearing to many voters and those in his party. But with multiple weeks of own goals and bad press is this attitude beginning to look careless rather than amusing?

‘People are now looking out for the next banana skin’ – James Forsyth

Isabel Hardman talks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls about the PM’s position in the wake Owen Paterson affair and the current migrant crossings in the channel.

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