Prime Minister Liz Truss went into “waxworks mode” in the Commons Wednesday and her performance lacked “emotional intelligence”, according to body language expert Judi James.
Speaking to Sky News today, Ms James said the body language of the prime minister was “hard to fathom” and “bizarre”.
Analysing the scenes, she said: “I would imagine the best way to describe it would be a lack of intelligence.”
Ms James went on to say Commons leader Penny Mordaunt looked like “somebody on a sinking ship for over an hour armed with a teacup” before Ms Truss “bounced in” and “started laughing and chatting behind her”, which was “strange”.
“There was no bonding going on between the two women,” she said.
The body language expert said the Tory leader then fell into “waxworks mode” and did not join in, before adding that her facial expression became “frozen” and her eyes “looked like somebody who was fighting sleep”.
“You know if you go to see a bad play or go to the cinema and you can feel your eyes beginning to droop. It was that kind of blinking going on,” Ms James continued.
“And then the only other sign we got from her body language is what I call her ‘poker tell’.
“When she doesn’t like something her chin moves from side to side.
“But apart from that, very little endorsement signals going on. Normally we’d expect to see her looking at Hunt and nodding, but she just sat there looking glazed and looking at the opposition but without any real focus .”
Asked if Ms Truss’s body language gave a hint as to whether she was determined or defeated, Ms James added: “She is determined in the brain cells, but I think generally her body is telling her she is defeated.”