Once upon a time, there was a pig called peppa. peppa lived in peppa pig world. it had very safe streets and discipline in schools. peppa could travel around with all her friends. oh, you haven t been? borisjohnson has. he s the prime minister, you know? he says it s in hampshire. it is. that bit isn t fiction. in fact, it is in hampshire. mrjohnson extolled the virtues of the peppa theme park in a speech to some of the uk s leading business people this week. a speech, whether or not you like peppa pig, clive, which has been widely derided as a bit of a car crash. it got terrible write ups. what went wrong? when we give public speeches and, you know, i ve given a few in my time, you know, you lose your place. i make sure that i number of them from now on, then i don t end up having to rely on the brilliance of peppa pig. borisjohnson is a populist. he is a boosterist, i m sure he wouldn t mind me saying.
With shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, the 27 people smuggled across europe to their deaths in the channel. the brakes are off for germany s traffic light coalition. and the peppa pig guide to being prime minister. our dateline panel this week the portuguese academic and journalist eunice goes. we re hoping to bejoined soon by thomas kielinger, veteran uk watcher and royal biographer. and in the studio with me, the bbc news presenter and foreign correspondent clive myrie. good to see you, clive.
He s someone who. the glass is always half full. yeah. he s very, very optimistic, and he puts that idea across in pretty much everything that he does and in how he behaves. that speech was in front of the cbi, the main business and industry organisation in this country, at a very worrying time following covid, the end of the furlough scheme, you know, all kinds of economic problems in terms of potentially rising inflation and so on. boosterism was not what these people wanted to hear. they wanted facts and a government agenda. now, while borisjohnson may have been able to get away with riffing on, you know, various things in the past, this is a serious moment for british industry and for the economy. and a riff on peppa pig was not what was required. it also perhaps pointed to wider problems within the administration, a lack of grip, a lack of rigour. and, you know, the various problems that the government has had recently. you ve talked a lot on this show about about potential sleaze
Hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, the 27 people smuggled across europe to their deaths in the channel. the brakes are off for germany s traffic light coalition. and the peppa pig guide to being prime minister. our dateline panel this week, the portuguese academic and journalist eunice goes. we re hoping to bejoined soon by thomas kielinger, veteran uk watcher and royal biographer. and in the studio with me, the bbc news presenter and foreign correspondent clive myrie. good to see you, clive. first, covid, a new variant identified in south africa, is causing concern and disrupting international travel as a result. and clive, it s been called omicron tonight.
For dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together bbc specialists with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, the 27 people smuggled across europe to their deaths in the channel. the brakes are off for germany s traffic light coalition. and the peppa pig guide to being prime minister. our dateline panel this week, the portuguese academic and journalist eunice goes. we re hoping to bejoined soon by thomas kielinger, veteran uk watcher and royal biographer. and in the studio with me, the bbc news presenter and foreign correspondent clive myrie. good to see you, clive.