I'm not sure which one was more depressing.

I was watching Palace

For the sake of those that didn't see it Boris Johnson was at his rabble rousing best and there is no doubt that he is a brilliant public speaker who can bring the feel good factor to his audience but he doesn't answer questions.

Almost every difficult question that he was asked he managed to evade including whether he would allow the UK ambassador to USA to continue in his job. Jeremy Hunt asked him whether he would resign if he hadn't got the UK out of the EU by 31st October as he promised and he waffled round that one as well.
Hunt also asked him why he made tax cuts for the rich his first pronouncement on taxation and there was yet more waffle without answering the question.

Hunt can't rouse an audience like Boris but at least he answered the questions, even difficult ones like would he keep on the ambassador to USA which was a question that Boris tried to evade.

The final question asked by the audience was "Which characteristic of your opponent do you admire the most".

Boris said that it was Hunt's ability to change his mind, being a reference to him originally being a Remainer and Hunt said that Boris's best characteristic was his ability to not answer a question but to waffle on so long that you forgot what the question was anyway.

I've got one of these new fangled devices that records TV programs in order to watch them later.

For the sake of those that didn't see it Boris Johnson was at his rabble rousing best and there is no doubt that he is a brilliant public speaker who can bring the feel good factor to his audience but he doesn't answer questions.

Almost every difficult question that he was asked he managed to evade including whether he would allow the UK ambassador to USA to continue in his job. Jeremy Hunt asked him whether he would resign if he hadn't got the UK out of the EU by 31st October as he promised and he waffled round that one as well.
Hunt also asked him why he made tax cuts for the rich his first pronouncement on taxation and there was yet more waffle without answering the question.

Hunt can't rouse an audience like Boris but at least he answered the questions, even difficult ones like would he keep on the ambassador to USA which was a question that Boris tried to evade.

The final question asked by the audience was "Which characteristic of your opponent do you admire the most".

Boris said that it was Hunt's ability to change his mind, being a reference to him originally being a Remainer and Hunt said that Boris's best characteristic was his ability to not answer a question but to waffle on so long that you forgot what the question was anyway.

Edited by Midlands Eagle (10 Jul 2019 6.35am)

I've just remembered something else.

Boris was asked by a member of the audience why he hadn't done his homework properly about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe when he was Foreign Secretary as his lack of research had probably cost the woman jail time.

Boris blustered away stating loudly that we shouldn't be deflected from the real villains of the piece which were the Iranian National Guard.

I must admit that when the hustings started I was quite pro Boris but now I'm not so sure

I am dead against this crowning by the conservative party of a new PM.

Labour did the same with Callaghan and Browne, who both got the boot by the public when they could vote.

IMO making Johnston PM will have serious consequences.

What a hot air balloon, doesn't do any kind of detail does he? Endless baseless optimism and pseudo waffling avoidance.

Hunt looks normal, I am suspicious.