Rishi Sunak sat meekly, waiting his turn, as if he were a little boy nervously perched outside the headmaster’s office, while in the foreground Britain’s most tattooed woman talked about getting her genitals tattooed.
This being ITV’s This morning— the long-running and highly scandal-ridden daytime television magazine program where a recipe may be followed by an in-depth interview with a victim of stalking — the British Prime Minister, the day before the UK The general election that will determine his fate and that of the ruling Conservative Party was desperately seeking a few final votes.
Thursday’s election is forecast to be a possible landslide victory for the opposition Labor Party – the prospect of which has motivated Sunak and his ministers to call for likely ruin for the entire country, despite many voters seeing corruption and the Tories as beleaguered. as responsible for a long slide into it.
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Before Sunak could make his last-minute hard sell, the presenters wanted to speak to “the UK’s most tattooed mum”, Becky Holt, and while cameras caught her talking to presenters Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley, with Sunak, they they also caught the country’s leader looking helpless in the background.
The pair met and greeted each other after the show, which was also captured on camera – which must have been a surreal turn of events for both of them; but perhaps not as surreal as for Sunak, relegated to the back of the studio, listening to every detail of Holt’s life in ink.
“I got my first tattoo when I was 15,” Holt told the hosts. “It wasn’t a wise decision, I tattooed my boyfriend’s name directly on my groin. Obviously that doesn’t exist anymore, but that’s when the obsession really started.”
She spent around £30,000 ($38,000) to paint around 95% of her body. As the interview showed, the refreshingly direct Holt could teach politicians a thing or two about clear communication. She said she was “living in the moment” and not thinking about getting old with tattoos. At least she would have an “interesting story” to tell nursing home staff where she might end up, she added.
About tattooing his genitals, Holt said: “It took three sessions, the first one was an hour and a half, which was just line work, and a few weeks later I painted it… It was horrible, it’s like tearing, burning, nothing. cool… It was just swollen, you have to be careful, it was a bit mean. But it actually healed very quickly. I think the skin there is a little different, so it healed a lot faster.”
Perhaps considering what he heard as a metaphor for how he might bounce back after receiving a thorough drubbing at the polls, Sunak, when asked casually in the following segment about how he was feeling, managed to say a little dazedly: “I’m doing really well. That was amazing… that was amazing.”
Shephard said it was “the nature of This morning: We went from the UK’s most tattooed mother to the Prime Minister.”
Becky Holt, left, and Rishi Sunak on ‘This Morning’.
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Sunak, trying to appear relaxed and Mr Normal – a pointless act as everyone knows his wealth and political ambitions – laughed at his attempt at a man-of-the-people chuckle and said: “Yes, no tattoos – no surprise, probably for most people.”
He added, pointing to his arm, that if he got a tattoo, he would receive the “Saints crest”, which stands for the Southampton FC insignia. “It’s a great logo. I think it’s one of the best shields in football.”
Curious friends can be made in TV studios, and that’s how Holt posted later on Instagram a photo of her and Sunak was captioned: “I can’t believe I met the Prime Minister today.” She said OK he was “very nice and very, very polite. He asked how much my tattoos were worth. He asked me which was the most painful. It was short and sweet and we shook hands.”
The other revelation from his interview: “I love big sandwiches,” Sunak confessed, with Sky News later getting the news that his favorite was “a sandwich, with chips and a Coke.”
On election night, Sunak said This morninghe would be eating his favorite pie, described as a “really good pork pie with special chutney and some cheese too”.
For many Britons, tomorrow’s elections will, at the very least, bring a welcome end to this inanity – and the political insanity that accompanies it.
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