Boris Johnson at the Tory party conference: "There's nobody here to clap"

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Currently only speaks digitally to the masses: Boris Johnson

Photo: Pa Video / dpa

These days Boris Johnson seems to disappear a lot.

Recently, when the British Prime Minister tried to bring his increasingly grumbling Tory faction into line in a video conference, the connection was broken in mid-sentence.

For about ten minutes the group remained leaderless, one of them began to trill "Rule Britannia" in the meantime, and only then did Johnson's face pop again on the screen.

On Monday, the head of government was supposed to speak to paying representatives of the British economy during the virtual conference of his conservative party.

But again technology played a trick on him.

And so, according to British media reports, the company bosses stared at the erratic conference logo "Build Back Better" for almost an hour.

Because on the same day it became known that since the end of September more than 15,000 people infected with Covid-19 had practically been overlooked due to a computer breakdown, some are now asking: Are these all just technical problems?

Or is the fault possibly in the political system?

And especially about the man at the helm?

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