Rishi Sunak has a body language problem, says expert – and Liz Truss needs to fix one key issue | UK News
Body language expert Judi James gives a fascinating insight into the mannerisms of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss – and the problems they need to solve to convince people they should be the next prime minister. follow.
She speaks Mr. Sunak is “smart, sly, always using Tony Blair’s ingenuity, we’re always in power” – but this looks better next to Boris Johnson.
“Stand alone, it doesn’t work very well,” she said, before outlining some of the problems the former prime minister faced.
“He’s got a huge downside as a politician, which is his big, expressive eyes. And I think in other debates you can see moments when a certain point makes a point. he’s hurt you can see when he’s getting annoyed so tell out loud Rishi will come to this one.
“Eventually, he forgets that you should keep smiling. You can really see his expression change.
“He needs to watch out for sounding a bit patronizing to the public.”
Ms. Truss The body language expert has her own problems if she wants to present herself as prime minister.
Ms. James said: “She tends to be what I would call disproportionate. She wants to appear tough and appear tough,” before adding that a quick blink could turn the secretary of state off. .
Mrs. James noticed efforts to “channel Thatcher” but it was not always convincing.
Mr Sunak uses similar judgments as Tony Blair, while Ms Truss can be ‘quite brittle’. Photo: Jonathan Hordle / ITV
“She’s got the looks and the sound, underneath the tough, pretty brittle. Her body language and voice has a sort of brittleness to them. And I think it would be pretty good for her to reduce it. it’s down a notch. That needs to take some of the brittleness away and it could be more efficient.”
Ms James also analyzed Boris Johnson’s final PMQs yesterday – and while we’ll get to her thoughts on the outgoing prime minister, her views on Nadine Dorries are worth mentioning firstly.
The Johnson loyalist was a “pure romantic heroine” when her boss said goodbye on Wednesday, with a “hand around her neck”
“It’s a real violin moment going there as far as she’s concerned.”
Nadine Dorries (right) was a ‘pure romantic heroine’ when her boss left
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Boris Johnson thanked everyone in the House of Commons – including his ‘respectable friend opposite’.
Regarding Mr. Johnson, this is “The most painful parting moment for Boris… I’ve seen signs of emotion beneath the embarrassment.”
Those are included:
- Relying heavily on the shipping box
- “Self-comfort, self-soothing”
- “He was constantly tucking his shirt behind his pants, which he usually does. But this is an overkill ritual.”
- “Fist to the heart… too exaggerated”
Mr Johnson shows ‘signs of emotion beneath embarrassment’
Boris Johnson leaves applause in ‘most painful parting moment’
Ms. James concluded: “We can see the moment Tom Brown’s School Day becomes Goodbye, Mr. Chips. And he looks miserable.
