Neatly tousled Boris Johnson delivers a final political speech in as Boris a way as possible

His 12 minute 40 second speech was too short to mention abandoned campaign promises on the triple pension lockout, National Insurance hike or even how gigabit broadband is itself a broken commitment

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Boris Johnson sends a message to the next Prime Minister

Could it have been more Boris?

Context of massive, hugely expensive and controversial infrastructure? Check.

The meticulously tousled hair just before the start of his speech? Check.

Plans costing billions of pounds of other people's money that he won't be responsible for or even ready to implement? Check.

An unrealistic booster designed to cheer up audiences despite obvious flaws and doubts that his latest dream will never come true? Check.

Classic Boris.

The Prime Minister reviewed his greatest successes in his latest political speech

As a farewell to frontline domestic politics, Johnson's last major policy speech as prime minister couldn't have been more fitting.

Here he was at the existing Sizewell B power station in Suffolk, throwing £700m of our money into the, uh, ambitious plan for Sizewell C.

An analogy of buying another kettle for £20 to save £10 a year on electricity left some listeners offended and many others baffled: £20 on a kettle, £20 on a reactor nuclear - all the same really, innit?< /p>

Inevitably there was a tour of the outgoing Prime Minister's greatest hits: Getting Brexit Done (ask the exporters, holidaymakers queuing for hours at passport control and anyone in Northern Ireland and it's not really done, is it?); the rollout of the vaccine (no mention of the NHS who injected the doses into people's arms); and 70% of the country with access to gigabit broadband.

His 12-minute-40-second speech - surely speaking to those queuing to reserve him for the after-dinner speech circuit as much as to the British voters who have supported him over the 37 last few months - was too brief to mention abandoned election promises on the triple pension lockout, National Insurance hike or even how this gigabit broadband is itself a broken commitment - the 2019 Conservative manifesto promised coverage at 100% by 2025; which has since been downgraded to 85%.

Nothing on Partygate either, strangely.

All in all, it was a typical performance by the awkward, rambling, optimistic prime minister who enraged, enraged, and at times entertained us from the stage we, as voters, provided.

And by Tuesday afternoon, it will all be over.