During Boris Johnson’s chaotic premiership there was a tactic he would use to divert attention from one thing to another - this became known as the 'dead cat' strategy.
One of many examples of this came in April 2022 when he, his wife Carrie Johnson and the then Chancellor Rishi Sunak were served with a fixed penalty notice for a rule-breaking event in the Cabinet Office to celebrate the PM’s birthday in June 2020 which made front page news and was the topic for debate on news shows and radio phone-ins alike.
