He blew his stack. His mop almost came loose from his scalp. He wasn’t just jabbing his forefinger and tossing his arms around, he was throwing combinations and swinging at punch-bags. He almost did the Ali shuffle. At PMQs Boris delivered an amazingly combative performance. Last week he smouldered like Etna. This week the summit exploded. This was Krakatoa.
Sir Keir arrived, with his starched quiff and his icy smirk, hoping to undo the Prime Minister by stealth. He raised the notorious October quote when Boris is alleged to have said that ‘bodies piled high’ would be preferable to a renewed lockdown.
Did he say that?
‘No,’ Boris replied. ‘Lockdowns are miserable, appalling things to have to do.’ But his ‘tough decision’ had paid off. The vaccine roll-out, ‘and the heroic efforts of the British people,’ put us on the road to recovery.
The ‘bodies piled high’ quote is not a huge problem for the famously loose-tongued Prime Minister.
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