HOW IS HE SO BAD AT THIS?
He should’ve said, ‘Look, I was very fortunate growing up, there’s no point denying that. What I want is for every child to have the opportunities I had, that’s why our policy is to blah, blah first-time buyers blah tax, etc., unlike Labour who want blah VAT on private schools, blah’.
Instead, he gets immediately rattled and starts gibbering at the first follow-up question. He is just the worst.
By the way, this is the interview he thought was so important he had to run away from Normandy to do it. Apparently, it wasn’t important enough for him to do any prep.
Nah, it actually is graft, because it’s specifically him using his government position to enrich himself, for instance by taking bribes. Grift is the general case of dishonest money, although there’s usually a connotation of scam involved.
I mean I’d call bribes dishonest money