Boris Johnson’s watch was 14 minutes fast during a minute’s silence for Plymouth victims today, eagle-eyed viewers spotted.
The prime minister, who is accustomed to clothing mishaps, was pictured standing in front of a clock at 11am, but his own watch showed 11.14am.
The time differences led to accusations that he was late to show his respects and lied about the time, forgetting to hide his own personal timepiece.
One Twitter user said: “They cared enough to turn back the clock on the mantelpiece but forgot his wrist watch.”
While Journalist Chris Stokel-Walker added: “Absolutely incredible scenes as Boris Johnson’s watch gives away that this wasn’t actually taken at 11am, despite the clock in the background.”
A Downing Street official, however, insisted the photo was definitely taken at 11am – and the PM’s watch was simply running 14 minutes fast, which is arguably worse!
As writer Tracy King put it: “I would go with ‘the prime minister sets his watch 15 minutes late to ensure he is early for meetings’”.
Others pointed out that it should come as little surprise that a man who struggles to do his own cuff buttons up cannot set the correct time.
Judge for yourself below:
You sure about that? pic.twitter.com/jjbowwZP6o
— TenchiResistsAgain????????? #FBPE #REJOIN (@ResistingTenchi) August 16, 2021
Related: Red Wall robbed of £1 billion in development cash by Brexit
Since you are here
Since you are here, we wanted to ask for your help.
Journalism in Britain is under threat. The government is becoming increasingly authoritarian and our media is run by a handful of billionaires, most of whom reside overseas and all of them have strong political allegiances and financial motivations.
Our mission is to hold the powerful to account. It is vital that free media is allowed to exist to expose hypocrisy, corruption, wrongdoing and abuse of power. But we can’t do it without you.
If you can afford to contribute a small donation to the site it will help us to continue our work in the best interests of the public. We only ask you to donate what you can afford, with an option to cancel your subscription at any point.
To donate or subscribe to The London Economic, click here.
The TLE shop is also now open, with all profits going to supporting our work.
The shop can be found here.
You can also SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER .
Discover more from Today Headline
Subscribe to get the latest posts to your email.