which comes across as slippery and inauthentic to non lawyers and hence irritating.

Kamala Harris suffered from this, and the 2019 Boris landslide happened imho because Emily Thornberry and Starmer (both lawyers) had the too clever by half idea of negotiating a new Brexit deal which they would then campaign against.

There are that many of them that when a non lawyer says things in blunt terms it sounds all the more compelling, whether on the right (Johnson/Trump) or the left (Mick Lynch, Corbyn to a degree) irrespective of the merits of the argument.

No offence to any of m'learned friends who post here, it is more the politician lawyers I get annoyed with.