![]() ![]() He also compared himself to Moses over his plan to help business invest in tackling climate change. Johnson also imitated the sound of an accelerating car with grunts that the official Downing Street release transcribed as “arum arum aaaaaaaaag”. “I think that is pure genius, don’t you? No government in the world, no Whitehall civil servant, would conceivably have come up with Peppa.” Johnson said the TV show “was rejected by the BBC and has now been exported to 180 countries” and now worth £6bn. Johnson explained that the “real lesson” he learned on the visit was that the popularity of the main character – who he said resembled a “Picasso-like hairdryer” – was evidence of “the power of UK creativity”. Even if they’re a bit stereotypical about Daddy Pig.” It has very safe streets, discipline in schools, heavy emphasis on new mass transit systems. Peppa Pig World is very much my kind of place. Hands up if you’ve been to Peppa Pig World! To illustrate this, he explained: “Yesterday I went, as we all must, to Peppa Pig World. He said that “the true driver of growth is not the government”, but the private sector, whose energy and originality the prime minister praised. ![]() One of Johnson’s lengthier tangents was about his recent trip to Hampshire’s Peppa Pig World – an amusement park dedicated to a children’s cartoon character, which he opined on in an apparent dig at civil servants and the BBC. However, the speech at the Port of Tyne near South Shields only contained an announcement about changing building regulations to ensure all new homes and buildings in England have electric vehicle charging points installed from next year. “I repeat my deep apologies to people for mistakes that may have been made on my watch.Some hoped the speech would be a chance for Johnson to announce proper policy in the pursuit of his “levelling up” agenda. But that is the very, very best of my recollection about this event.”Īsked if he was “taking the mickey” over his claim that he believed the 20th May 2020 drinks were a work event, the prime minister said: “I think what people need to do is wait and see what the report says. He added: “I do humbly apologise to people for misjudgments that were made. He said he then went back to his office and continued working. His memory of the event, he said, was going into the garden for “about 25 minutes” for what he “implicity thought was a work event” and talking to staff. He told broadcasters: “I can tell you categorically, categorically, that nobody told me and nobody said that this was something that was against the rules or was a breach of the Covid rules or we were doing something that wasn’t a work event because, frankly, I don’t think, I can’t imagine why on earth it would have gone ahead or why it would have been allowed to go ahead.” Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Speaking yesterday, the prime minister said he wasn’t warned that the 20th May 2020 gathering was in breach of Covid rules. It’s said MPs met last night to discuss Johnson’s future in a gathering nicknamed the “pork pie plot” or the “pork pie putsch”. It’s thought that roughly 20 MPs could submit letters today, but one told The Daily Telegraph the number of letters needed to trigger a challenge could be reached today. Now, Johnson faces the possibility of a no-confidence vote if 54 letters of no confidence are received by the 1922 Committee. Boris Johnson has doubled down on his claim that he thought the “bring your own booze” gathering on May 2020 was a “work event”, and insisted he wasn’t warned that the gathering was against Covid rules.įormer aide Dominic Cummings claims Johnson misled parliament when he said he thought it was a “work event”, and said the prime minister was made aware that the get-together would breach Covid rules. ![]()
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