Not a defence of him, more a criticism, I don't believe he's the nasty, vicious bigoted wanker he and his team have decided is the stance he's going to take into the election. It's not authentic in the way I think it is with Badenoch or Braverman. When you get more natural moments he'll refer to Brianna as she because it's the empathetic, human thing to do. When it's scripted he's playing that role he/they have built for him. The language on asylum seekers the same. It's a problem for him when people in his culture wars become real rather than just abstract.