'You spend an awful lot of time making coffee and forgetting what you’re doing': PM says home working 'does not work'
13 May Civil Service Reform

'You spend an awful lot of time making coffee and forgetting what you’re doing': PM says home working 'does not work'

Johnson says his experience of working from home mainly consists of "walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a small piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop"
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