simon, ruth davidson, who was the conservative leader in scotland, was on the radio on friday, sayinghought was poor leadership was that speech we talked about a few weeks ago, the peppa pig speech, when he was addressing the confederation of british industry. why has that caused such bad feeling? well, i was there. i was standing not much furtherl from him then you are from me. so you were able to look and look around at the audience...? i did look round, i have to be honest about it. i i've seen quite a few boris - johnson speeches to business. it's an audience he doesn't feel, unusually for- a conservative prime minister, that comfortable in front of. i i think he finds their- strictures, spreadsheets and analysis and all that kind of stuff a little bit _ sort of stifling. and sometimes, like during the brexit debate, he saw. the caution of businesses - who had real money on the line, he saw that... he saw, dare i say, the conservatism of business... well, he just thought... he thought it was, you know, cautious at best, a form - of cowardice at worst. and also, i think he finds- b

i heard ruth davidson, the former tory leader of scotland saying a bit of blood he gripped was how sheof passion, and i wonder if that kind of echoes you are feeling on this. it’s and i wonder if that kind of echoes you are feeling on this.— you are feeling on this. it's been an extraordinarily _ you are feeling on this. it's been an extraordinarily difficult - you are feeling on this. it's been an extraordinarily difficult 20 - an extraordinarily difficult 20 months, 21 months with the covid pandemic, and that isjust months, 21 months with the covid pandemic, and that is just new territory, notjust for our prime territory, not just for our prime minister, territory, notjust for our prime minister, but for every person across europe and the world. we have to accept that this is uncharted territory. he has got many of the big decisions rights, the vaccine roll—out was a huge success, the boosters are going well, the timing of coming out of lockdown in the summer was widely regarded as a success, but a lot of that is been overshadowed by recent missteps. the stories about alleged priorit