The "People's PMQs" are a social media publicity event introduced in 2019 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in which pre-selected members of the general public ask the Prime Minister questions during a live video stream on Facebook. In spite of the name, they are not related to the Parliamentary Prime Minister's Questions, , the Prime Minister had released two "People's PMQs".
The "People's PMQs" have been criticised as a "sham" event, and as a way for politicians to avoid press scrutiny. The journalist Nick Robinson has compared the People's PMQs to “a form of propaganda used by dictators down the ages".
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