This Boris Johnson interview will make you cringe

From Digital Spy

Boris Johnson was already vying for the most awkward interview of the month, but it looks like he might have just sealed it.

The Foreign Secretary was giving an interview to BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday (June 21), when he was pressed by presenter Eddie Mair about the Queen's Speech and he stumbled his way through answering.

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Asked what the government will do to tackle "burning injustices" and "ensure the criminal justice system stops treating black people more harshly than white", Johnson replied:

"Well there are measures in the… er… believe in the, er, the bill on the courts, which I, I think is supposed to, er, address some of those issues and I think one thing in particular that, er, we're, we are looking at, is, um... measures to... hang on a second."

Cue the sound of papers being shuffled.

When the presenter moved on to the next topic – mental healthcare – Boris got a telling-off after trying to return to the original question.

"Well, why don't we do the questions in the order I'm asking them," Eddie Mair countered. "It's not a Two Ronnies sketch. You can't answer the question before last."

So taken aback was Labour's former deputy prime minister John Prescott, he labelled it "THE worst interview by a politician EVER".

And this is why you're a comedian, Russell Brand.

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