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Burqas, kippers and Peppa Pig: Twenty one of Boris Johnson's biggest gaffes

Sep 05, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -58% Very Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -70% Very Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -64% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : In November 2016, Mr Johnson was mocked by European ministers following a bizarre argument about whose country would sell more prosecco or fish and chips post-Brexit.
60% : During a visit to India early in 2017, Mr Johnson appeared to accuse the EU of wanting to inflict Nazi-style "punishment beatings" on the UK because of Brexit.
47% : "It seems absolutely incredible to me that, in the 21st century, member states of the EU should be seriously contemplating the reintroduction of tariffs or whatever to administer punishment to the UK."
43% : He waved the fish during a rant about "pointless, expensive, environmentally damaging" EU regulations, claiming that Brussels bureaucracy had "massively" increased costs for fish suppliers because of rules saying that their products must be transported in ice.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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