2022 year in review
Political Fix
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Boris Johnson's Contriteness
The full gamut of weaknesses and strengths of Boris Johnson were on display during those last weeks of his premiership, says Jim Boulden. It was an acutely politically sensitive thing to do for a police force to actually investigate the sitting prime minister and everyone around him - it was quite a brave thing to do. But like you say, I think that the public pressure just became too much for them to withstand. And then the issue of Boris Johnson's contrition, we heard him a second ago sounding vaguely contrite,. The thing about it was that he would always sound kind of plausible when he said it. Some of the blue collar workers who'd come from Labour and switched across because of
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