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Why was Boris Johnson’s CBI speech received so badly?

29 November 2021

Dai George (UCL English Language & Literature) said that usually Johnson’s analogies were well received thanks to their “imagistic flair or a cognitive spark of surprise, the Peppa Pig story he told to the CBI failed as it resembled a “boorish anecdote from a best man speech".

Read: Guardian