Boris Johnson Cites Lenin, Peppa Pig in Rambling Pitch to Businesses

Boris Johnson in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., on Nov. 22.

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When the U.K.’s biggest business lobby gathered in a part of the country critical to Boris Johnson’s economic and political plans on Monday, they may have expected the prime minister to at least sound serious.