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From our media editor’s analysis of Johnson’s appearance:

Boris Johnson’s decision to launch a regular “people’s prime minister’s questions” slot on Facebook shows how political parties are increasingly able to bypass the scrutiny of journalists – while remaining confident that traditional media outlets will, in any eventuality, still report on sanitised official broadcasts.



The attraction of this approach for Downing Street is clear. Why bother holding a regular prime ministerial press conference for Westminster journalists who will ask about tricky subjects if you can select the questions yourselves?

You can read the whole piece here: