Someone said that an intern somewhere in Mr Jeffries' office was very busy with a thesaurus, and sadly this rings true ("xenial"? really?). As you say, it was trite & above all, meaningless. The late, great Peter Sellers summed it up thus: https://genius.com/Peter-sellers-party-political-speech-lyrics Here in Australia, the great speech-writer Don Watson penned a "dictionary" of "Weasel Words", an analysis of political-speak: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/watsons-dictionary-of-weasel-words-9781740513661

Little has changed since those days. *sigh*