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Originally Posted by denphone
It convey's a better understanding to the public if he was to stay at home Chris.
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No - holidaying in the UK would merely deny headlines to tabloid newspapers who play on the prejudices of people over a certain age and people who use 'The Continent' as code for an unfathomable, faraway place that is somehow disconnected from the One True Reality that is the United Kingdom.
If he were in a safari lodge somewhere in Kenya you might have a point, but as it is, he is no further away than Tuscany, able to take a phone call at 10 seconds notice and able to be chairing an emergency cabinet meeting in under 4 hours should the need arise.