News

Ros Atkins’ deadpan takedown of Boris Johnson’s CBI speech is brutal

A deadpan takedown of Boris Johnson’s CBI speech has been making the rounds on social media.

The BBC’s Ros Atkins covered some of the bizarre things the prime minister said in his usual snappy format, concluding that “interesting is one word”, but “as we’ve heard, others are being used too.”

Yesterday the PM enthused about a visit to Peppa Pig World and pretended to be a speeding car during an occasionally baffling speech to business chiefs.

He also made a passing comparison between himself and Moses, leading to some journalists even asking about his welfare after the speech.

Watch the Atkins clip in full below:

Related: MPs vote through social care reforms – but government majority gets slashed

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Published by