When the Treasury set up an emergency meeting between Nadhim Zahawi and the energy companies on Thursday, officials were told the night before that a “representative from Number 10” would attend to oversee discussions on how to ease the cost of living.
A few hours before the meeting, the chancellor’s team established that the representative would be Boris Johnson. The Prime Minister is apparently “so fed up” with running what is essentially a “zombie government” that he has announced he will come along.
On Friday, Johnson decided to join Zahawi on a trip to Wales to see representatives of Airbus, a routine meeting where the prime minister is not usually seen dead, prompting one ministerial aide to suggest that Johnson was “giving off David Brent vibes “,
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