The hour is serious but the tone does not have to be. Not always anyway, as Boris Johnson seems to think. Even if he now speaks of "war" , like Emmanuel Macron, the British Prime Minister did not totally depart from his style, a mixture of seriousness and jokes.
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According to the British press, during a recent briefing with the industrialists whom he asked to convert to the production of ventilators for hospitals, "BoJo" amused himself by speaking of "the operation" Last breath "" . A humor that all his interlocutors would not have found good taste. At the daily press conference he just set up, he also launched an ill-timed Brexit joke. More generally, the very particular verb of Boris Johnson, which can be brilliant and charming, seems less adapted to these times of health crisis. It requires being concise, clear, precise, when "BoJo" likes quirky style and jokes
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