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Boz the Bluster gets hammered in PMQs ‘whack

a mole’
John Crace
Every time PM put his head above the parapet in the Commons Keir Starmer clobbered him
Wed 1 Jul 2020 16.51 BST

B
oz the Bluster. Can he fix it? On the evidence of his latest outing at prime minister’s
questions, the answer is a categorical no. Right now you wouldn’t trust Boris
Johnson to get himself dressed in the morning, let alone get dragged around the park
by Dilyn the dog.

Six months into his term of office, he already looks a spent force. A man desperately playing
catch-up as he tries to respond to events that are out of his control.

“We are the builders, you are the blockers,” he said, towards the end of his reply – if you can
call it that – to Keir Starmer’s final question. “We are the doers, you are the ditherers.”

Even the most loyal Tory backbenchers in the chamber looked to be taken aback by that.
Labour had not had anything to block – even assuming they wanted to – as the Tories had not
built anything in the past decade. And when it comes to dithering, the prime minister has
elevated it into an art form.

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