‘Sofa, so bad’: watch laid-back UK PM Theresa May speak to Britain from a comfy couch as her country sinks into Brexit oblivion
- Prime minister deploys relaxed performance at odds with her usual formal style. But did it work?
Seated on a grey sofa in her Chequers country home, her left elbow propped up casually, a vase of tulips off to her right, Theresa May wants to have a friendly chat.
“Over the past few days, people have been asking me what on earth has been happening with Brexit,” she says.
“And I can understand that, because after all it’s been nearly three years since people voted in the referendum for the UK to leave the European Union,” she says with a weary, bemused chuckle.
The conversational style, shaky camera work and homespun setting of the video – as much as a 16th century manor house can be thought of as homely – is a break from her previous addresses to the nation on Brexit.
In her most memorable recent appearance on March 20, the prime minister stood at a podium emblazoned with a coat of arms. Her tone was angry as she blamed parliament for not getting her Brexit deal through.