Hanging out with Boris - face to face with a PM like no other on tour in Manchester
Even before he became Prime Minister, we were used to seeing Boris Johnson’s face on a regular basis. We’ve all seen the footage of him getting stuck on a zipline.
“Come on, yes,” Mr Johnson said, switching to ‘serious’ mode. He answered my questions about NHS investment in optimistic tones. But - ever the journalist - he couldn’t help telling ME what the story was. I’d been asked by the Newsdesk to make my final question light-hearted. How would the PM spend a day in Manchester?
He arrived late and bounded into the room, Tiggerish. “Great to meet you” he said, presenting his elbow to me. I paused. Stared down at his arm. He raised his elbow slightly and nodded. I obliged him. We sat down. His staff weren’t happy about the pictures, which feature in the Manchester Evening News and the Daily Mail . After all, that scruffy image is carefully manicured.
As Tom recalls, Christmas was a week away and the UK would be plunged into another national lockdown within days. He found the PM sitting in a grey Portakabin. “He was clearly keen to appeal to the assembled group of reporters,” Tom says. “After another journalist introduced herself and the radio station she worked for, the PM adopted a comical voice as he repeated the station's name several times. ‘Ahhhhh glooooooooobal radio. Gluuuuubal’.
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