Wooing US Republicans is a lot harder than a one-take video clip
David Cameron discovered the hard way this week that his much-vaunted presentational skills are not enough to get what he wants.
Yet while it garnered him 12,000 “likes” and two million views on X , and while it exposed just how awful Rishi Sunak is at similar performances, Cameron’s clipthat “too many tweets might make a twat” seemed to forget his own advice, not least as he ended his video with a hectoring mantra that Nato had to “get on the phone to Speaker Johnson” to get the“I’m going to see him next week and say ‘we need that money’,” Cameron thundered at the end ofExcept he didn’t get to see Johnson at all.
terrible salesman among Trumpian Republicans who haven’t forgotten his cosiness with Barack Obama and his pro-China policies. Yet any prodding by Cameron may have much less impact than another Johnson: Boris Johnson. It was the former PM who last summer laid the groundwork in visiting Trump, and who has skilfully exploited his friendship with the ex-President, to persuade him of Kyiv’s plight.
In a spat with the former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott at the Canada event, Johnson also made the jobs-first case for tackling climate change. “You don’t mind if we are all going to fry,” he said, as he mocked Abbott’s “scientific competence”.
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