Can Boris Johnson save his premiership this week? Downing Street certainly hopes so: a sweeping announcement about the future of the BBC here, a commitment to put the military in charge of policing Channel crossings there, rounded off with a healthy dose of “look, Keir Starmer had a beer and some food in his office!” Will it work?
To take the last of that list first: I’ve been working late in an office, ordered a takeaway, stopped to eat it with colleagues, and then returned to work, and I’ve been at parties where I got drunk enough to break a child’s swing. The two events aren’t comparable and it seems politically risky for the government to conflate the two, given that the former is something that plenty of people working in offices for long hours during lockdown did do, and the latter isn’t.
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