he was called eeyore in the press because he was so dour and down.ll, it seems that the prime minister has switched from being eeyore and is now almost boris johnsonian in his boosterism. listen to this. this is what he said. make no mistake, this is a great moment to back britain. we have an amazing education system, the largest tech sector in europe . i largest tech sector in europe. i life sciences, clean energy, creative industries . i mean, it creative industries. i mean, it sounded like something from bofis sounded like something from boris johnson. >> yes, perhaps without the references to the classics or peppa pig to the roman empire or to peppa pig. yes. but yes, lots of lots of very good, positive sounding noises coming from this investment summit. i just wonder, as you say, how it fits with the narrative. up until now from the new government that everything is going to get worse before it gets better, how we're going to have to tighten our belts, how, you know, we're all predicting that there will be a tax hikes coming down the line. so how

keir starmer has gone from a sort of eeyore like figure saying that everything's really dreadful, muchworse than he expected when he got elected. you know, there's going to have to be tax rises and we're going to be tax rises and we're going to have to release prisoners and all the rest of it. well, now he's saying britain is brilliant. and not only is it brilliant, it's booming. >> is it a bit late, though? i mean, we've all read the reports that millionaires are leaving in their droves, or at least thinking about it if they haven't left already. we're all reading how, you know, national insurance contributions for employers may also be going up. when the government has said before, no national insurance won't go up. okay. we're hearing from the, you know, city bosses that they're worried and hiring's fallen to the lowest level since covid. i mean, it's a lot to turn around, isn't it? if you want to get across a positive message. >> yeah. i mean, it's strange to think that, you know, weeks and weeks, months and months of relentlessly talking down this country. oh, that doesn't matter,