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The missing leader: Boris Johnson needs to find his purpose again

Boris Johnson needs to find his purpose again

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

At the end of last week, the Prime Minister invited Tory MPs to a massive conference call, a kind of digital fireside chat to lift their spirits. It was a disaster. First the MPs were astonished to learn that he wasn’t taking questions; then his connection failed halfway through — at which point the callers, who had been ‘muted’, became ‘unmuted’ and started talking loudly and all at once.

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