Peppa Pig and prolonged pauses – is it time to start worrying about the PM?

“It can only really be described as meandering at high speed. It was as if a world he didn’t understand was spread out before him, and he zoomed in random patterns across its surface like potassium on a pond.”

- TOM PECK

“It can only really be described as meandering at high speed. It was as if a world he didn’t understand was spread out before him, and he zoomed in random patterns across its surface like potassium on a pond.”

This, it turns out, is what I had to say about Jeremy Corbyn – remember him? – when, a few months into the job of Labour leader, he turned up to give a speech to a room full of business people and it arguably didn’t go well.

So before we get on to Boris Johnson’s latest self-deflating fart balloon of a speech, I would, briefly, like to issue the member for Islington North a formal apology. His powers of oratory were maligned in their time, and a fair chunk of that maligning may or may not have been done by me. Through the prism of today, however, he stands aloft the dismal times that have followed him like a modern-day Cicero. His reputation has been rehabilitated by Boris Johnson, who was, we must report yet again, in his not even phone-it-in but waft-it-in mode. And the results were as predictable as they were execrable.