dear me

But he became contemptuous of Boris Johnson, at one point saying "dear me, he really, really is awful" while being filmed after connecting remotely to a Covid meeting led by the then prime minister in 2020.

"Dear me, he really, really is awful," he said.

At first, she said, she thought: “‘Oh, no, dear me, I am a literary author.

With the cameras rolling, an S4C documentary recorded him saying: "Dear me, he really, really is awful."

Mrs. Boardman said, “Dear me! I hope the keg was empty!”