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Boris is hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. After some time in intensive care, he returns to Number 10 where the Partygate scandals lead to a public outcry, political ousting and Boris's resignation.
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00:05December 2019. Boris delivers the Tories a thumping victory.
00:11Say up and ready. Up and ready. Danny Kruger, well done.
00:16With new Conservative MPs elected across swathes of Britain.
00:21You won this, Boris.
00:27It was ecstatic.
00:31It's obvious we haven't won literally for a hundred years.
00:35It had happened when you're nine years into a government and he encapsulated that sense
00:41of change.
00:42Thank you. Happy Christmas, everybody. I'm welcome, I'm welcome.
00:46The first cabinet could be described as an almost giddy affair.
00:51At that point, it was shining bright morning. Here come Santa Claus, here come Santa Claus,
00:56and dance Santa Claus today.
00:58There were a lot of people in cabinet that maybe had never expected to be in cabinet.
01:04There's a ringing, children singing, all those merry and bright.
01:09Who Boris was Boris-like? Boris is always positive. That's the thing to remember.
01:13How many new hospitals are we going to build?
01:15All today.
01:16Correct.
01:16How many more nurses are we going to hire?
01:1850,000.
01:19You know, you know the answers.
01:20How many more police?
01:2150,000.
01:23You are correct.
01:23Sanchez brought me some good economic news that unemployment is up again.
01:28Un-unemployment is up again.
01:30We've got this great majority. We're going to get the Brexit deal for Parliament.
01:34We have a proud dad. Your boy done it.
01:36Well, I'm gobsmatched. You've got a proud sister here.
01:38You're an ardent Remainer.
01:39Uh, yes.
01:40You're in a weird position. Your brother has won a general election by campaigning
01:45massively against what you feel. Are you all spending Christmas together?
01:48Who knows what's going to happen?
01:50You must know as a family where you're having Christmas.
01:54Hello, folks. I hope you've all had a fantastic Christmas.
01:57As we say goodbye to 2019, let's also bid farewell to the division, the rancour,
02:02the uncertainty which has held this country back for too long.
02:07Together, let's make 2020 the start of something special.
02:16On New Year's Day, I was reading the Times at home in Suffolk and I saw this little sidebar
02:23story that there was an outbreak of pneumonia cases in a place called Wuhan in China.
02:30So I asked for a briefing when I got back into the office and carried on with my breakfast.
02:44I was reading the Times at home in New Year's Day.
02:45Mid-January, I watched a film called Contagion.
02:49And this film was based on all the best evidence of what actually might happen in a pandemic.
02:56It was a sort of scientifically credible film, if you like.
02:59And I remember watching it thinking, God, if this happens, it's an absolute disaster for,
03:07not just for Britain, but for civilization.
03:15The Times at home in New Year's Day
03:16Hello, Mr Hancock.
03:16Are the Chinese sharing all the information we need?
03:19Um, we'll be, we're going into Cobra now and we'll be making a statement afterwards.
03:24You go in and I was sat at the top of this long table, 10 people on each side,
03:29and it's a very serious, sombre place.
03:34On the walls, there are these screens where they type the agreed action points as you, as you debate.
03:42Has any action been decided, Minister?
03:44Does the public need to be concerned?
03:46Boris, when I briefed him directly, he was across it.
03:51But for some reason that did not cascade into the Downing Street team at all.
03:56And I, I can't but suppose why.
04:00Good morning, Mr Cummings.
04:01Are you now in charge?
04:03Is this a complete takeover?
04:05Boris's chief advisor is Dominic Cummings.
04:08Good morning, Mr Senor.
04:09Widely acknowledged to oversee all areas of government policy.
04:15The strangest part was that everybody else was carrying on with their normal lives.
04:20The streets were full.
04:22I remember going to PMQs and every single question was about something else.
04:27And standing there thinking, this is all completely irrelevant.
04:30Will the Prime Minister tell us what the environment bill will do for wetlands and wildlife?
04:35And will he come and visit our famous flamboyance of flamingos?
04:41Mr Speaker, I look forward to seeing her famous flamboyance of flamingos at the earliest opportunity.
04:46But I can tell her that our environment plan does place...
04:53I felt I was sort of waving over here.
04:56There's a big issue going down the track.
04:58But the machine was not interested.
05:01You know, they wouldn't let me make a statement in Parliament.
05:03There was a total focus on getting Brexit done at the end of January.
05:1031st of January. Brexit Day.
05:14And after years of bitter arguments across the nation, Britain formally leaves the European Union.
05:21We once again will be able to find our place in the world.
05:26He'd never have even been PM without me. Never got a word of thanks really.
05:34Go and live in Europe, you want to wave that flag.
05:37USA! USA!
05:42Brexit Day, a good moment.
05:45It's important that it's done and dusted, that Brexit has been delivered.
05:50Prime Minister, if you could lean in a little bit, that would be lovely. Thank you.
05:54It's obviously been Brexit in the run-up to the end of January.
06:01All the excitement that goes on.
06:07The chief architects of Vote Leave, including the Prime Minister, will be toasting Brexit.
06:12Their victory is complete.
06:35The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Simmonds, have announced that they're expecting a baby and they're going
06:42to get married.
06:45The start of March, Italy is in all sorts of trouble. Its health system was overwhelmed.
06:58Every three Guinnesses, we will just disinfect.
07:03You saw Covid starting to emerge.
07:06Most people couldn't really comprehend what it would look like, or even believe what it potentially could look like.
07:15It could be just a wee bit of hype at the moment.
07:25Boris is essentially a people pleaser.
07:27This is Cheltenham Racecourse. Now, organisers say that the event is going ahead with government backing.
07:35If I stand for one thing, it's really that people often do best if they're allowed to get on with
07:43running their own lives.
07:46If you don't bully them and boss them around and you give them choice, then you're going to have a
07:51happy society.
07:55You saw this battle between the libertarian and the person that had to make some really difficult decisions.
08:03You got the feel that the libertarian in him was winning out.
08:08There's been a bit of confusing advice about things like shaking hands.
08:12Yes.
08:13And I'm intrigued to know whether you've developed a personal policy yourself, so...
08:18No, well, Victoria, I can tell you that I'm shaking hands.
08:22I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus patients,
08:27and I shook hands with everybody, you'll be pleased to know, and I continue to shake hands.
08:31Thanks very much, yes.
08:33Boy, did he find it difficult.
08:36Boris is naturally a bullion positive persona was not well suited to a pandemic.
08:43There's a hugely numerical exercise because epidemiology is essentially stats.
08:50Probably around 1% of people might end up dying based on the Chinese experience.
08:56Will you go to the pub tonight?
08:57Of course I'll go to a pub if I need to go to the pub.
08:59What do you think your son's going to say today? He just told you not to.
09:02No, he said, you know, we should avoid going to pubs.
09:05But if I had to go to a pub, I'd go to a pub.
09:07Why does anyone have to go to a pub? Why would you have to go?
09:11Stanley had absolutely no idea of physical discomfort.
09:18And Boris Johnson is like this too.
09:20And that goes back to his childhood.
09:22There you were just expected to sort of keep going.
09:28My family's odd.
09:30We benefited from a weird thing.
09:33My mother, she had four kids really soon.
09:36And when I was seven, she went into a mental hospital.
09:39And that was basically it.
09:41My father was traveling the world.
09:44We were left to get on with it.
09:48My first memory of meeting Charlotte is, she said,
09:52two of my children have been very ill.
09:56One of them shot one of the others with a pellet.
10:01And one of them sucked some mold off a pipe.
10:07I mean, someone who'd known him for a very long time said to me,
10:10I'd never put him in charge of hospitals.
10:11Well, he found himself dealing with a great health crisis.
10:18March the 23rd, 2020.
10:21And the disturbing COVID stats force Boris to announce the unthinkable.
10:27There now follows a ministerial broadcast from the Prime Minister.
10:31Good evening.
10:33From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction.
10:37You must stay at home.
10:41You should not be meeting friends.
10:43We'll stop all gatherings.
10:46We'll stop all social events.
10:50The way ahead is hard.
10:54The Prime Minister's announcement tonight, what have we ushered in?
10:59Then Boris wasn't feeling that well.
11:02And then eventually I felt unwell and got myself tested.
11:05Something urgent for the Prime Minister's top advisor.
11:08His boss has contracted coronavirus.
11:10Downing Street said Boris has tested positive as well.
11:14And, you know, and Prince Charles.
11:16Hi, folks.
11:17I want to bring you up to speed with something that's happening today,
11:20which is that I've developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus.
11:27Boris and I had been ill together for a week.
11:32And at the same time as I started getting quite quickly better,
11:37Boris went downhill again.
11:39Although I am sequestered here in Number 10 Downing Street,
11:44I am, thanks to the miracles of modern technology, able to be in constant touch.
11:50Yeah, he rang me one night.
11:51He was, I'd just spoken to Kerry.
11:53He was on his own in Number 10.
11:56And, um, I could tell, I could tell by his breathing.
12:00He was getting a lot worse.
12:05We get the message, the Prime Minister has gone into hospital.
12:08And then there is an emergency Cabinet meeting.
12:12Very unusually, it's organised at no notice, comes straight through from the switchboard at Number 10.
12:20And the Cabinet Secretary comes on and says the Prime Minister has gone into intensive care.
12:25He had a 50-50 chance of being intubated, and I knew that at that point there was a 50
12:32-50 survival rate.
12:34So I knew that there was a one in four chance that Boris was going to die.
12:43Boris's children with ex-wife Marina are told the news.
12:49Although estranged from their father because of the fallout from the separation with their mother,
12:54several rush to St Thomas'.
12:57Carrie, who is heavily pregnant, waits at home, unable to visit intensive care.
13:03I did see Carrie break down. It suddenly became very serious and very real to everybody.
13:10It was almost too, too grim a prospect for anyone to actually talk about.
13:18And actually, but it had to be considered and it had to be talked about.
13:22We had to acknowledge there was a chance that the boss might not make it.
13:26And then there was a protocol put in place for if he didn't, how the next Prime Minister would be
13:31chosen because there wouldn't be time for a Conservative Party leadership contest, that's for sure.
13:35Our thoughts are with the Prime Minister, his fiancée and his family.
13:39Michael Gove, Rishi Sunak, Dominic Raab and me, we then all spoke to each other individually
13:45and then collectively and all agreed, no game playing, no politics,
13:50just do what is necessary to get our country through this.
13:54Come on Boris Johnson, you get better. Come on you fuckers.
14:00Get out of your doors, come on, let's clap for Boris Johnson.
14:06That's it, come on Boris Johnson.
14:11After three days in intensive care, Boris's condition improves
14:17and he leaves hospital to recuperate at Chequers.
14:21Good afternoon. I have today left hospital after a week in which the NHS has saved my life, no question.
14:28You saw a real marked difference in Boris when he came out of hospital.
14:33It was quite clear he wasn't really well enough to be back in government and
14:39he would sometimes apologise for forgetting conversations that you had had previously.
14:45thank you from me, from all of us, to the NHS.
14:51Let's remember to follow the rules on social distancing.
14:58All right, it must be a minute now.
15:00I don't know, no, you've only done 24 hours.
15:03Oh, it's not done and dusted!
15:05Shut up!
15:16Three weeks after leaving intensive care, Boris welcomes the birth
15:21of Wilf, his sixth child and first with partner Carrie Simmons.
15:26Within a month, Boris had a baby, put the country into lockdown, nearly died.
15:34All within one month.
15:37On the day Wilf is born, UK Covid deaths rise to over 29,000.
15:43And things are pretty desperate, you know, at the hospital, we're all having a really hard time.
15:49You need to stay home to save people's loved ones.
15:53We're all just doing what we can.
15:55I have to go in all the time.
15:57Well, don't stand near us then, are they?
15:59You're absolute idiots!
16:02It feels like a looting battle, but it's not.
16:12Inside number 10, Carrie adjusts to lockdown with a newborn,
16:17after a decade of working on political campaigns and in communications.
16:23Carrie was quite an unusually political prime ministerial spouse,
16:28because she'd actually worked for the Conservative Party.
16:31She was really steeped in Tory politics.
16:34She had strong views of her own and she wasn't embarrassed to share them.
16:43There were just so many rival sources of power in the court of King Boris.
16:48She was described as Princess Nut-Nut, or she was compared to Lady Macbeth.
16:53There was definitely misogyny in some of that.
17:03Boris and Carrie were almost drawn together by a shared sense of childhood trauma.
17:12One MP said to me, they were damaged souls.
17:16She would describe her father as the man in the car,
17:19because she only ever saw him when he was driving up and then driving away.
17:23She had very little to do with him, was raised by her mother on her own.
17:32Boris's mother, Charlotte, divorced his father, Stanley, in 1978.
17:44Charlotte was diagnosed with Parkinson's when she was 40.
17:48This increasingly impacted her life as an artist.
17:51Charlotte has affected me, every bit of me.
17:55It's affected my painting, my drawing, my reading, my whole body.
18:07She was very ill for many, many years.
18:09At one point, she could just about get up from her wheelchair and move to the easel.
18:15And she sometimes did that when she wasn't even supposed to and fell over.
18:20She quite often fell over.
18:22Maybe this is a characteristic that Boris has inherited.
18:25She was very bold and risk-taking.
18:29She quite often phoned her.
18:31And whenever I texted him when he was Prime Minister, he always responded very nicely.
18:36And he always sent me texts saying, thank you for being nice to my mum and stuff.
18:42We got on very well because I was one of the very few of her friends who liked Boris.
18:47Boris. The others didn't even want to talk about him because they were against him politically.
18:52Can you imagine having a son who's reviled by the entire half the country,
18:57or more than half the country sometimes, because of Brexit mainly?
19:01Boris is a liar! Boris is a liar! Boris is a liar!
19:05Boris is a liar! Boris is a liar!
19:06Brexit share! Brexit share!
19:09I don't think she was fully aware of how much hatred there was around.
19:15Sometimes her carer tried not to show her some of the newspapers, you know, or headlines.
19:22And I think she was worried that he was going to become a cropper in one way or another.
19:30But she did stress that he was a very vulnerable person.
19:44The thing about Boris, right, is that he came into government to drive Brexit through.
19:55Cummings was critical to him in driving it through.
19:58The essentially destructive nature of that was Cummings's sort of forte.
20:04I'd like to have a conversation with you.
20:05So we're not going to have a conversation with you.
20:07Are you going to walk along asking your name questions? Is that your best move?
20:10Is that your best move?
20:11I'd like to have a conversation with you.
20:13Is that all you can say?
20:16You'd go to a meeting with the Prime Minister, with Cabinet Secretary, etc., etc.,
20:22and they'd all be sitting in a row in the suits and so on.
20:26And then Dominic Cummings coming in just like this,
20:30and then sort of lounging like this, you know, pretending not to be interested in the meeting.
20:35And going, oh, God, you know.
20:38Like, it's all an act.
20:40And I always felt that he and Johnson were a perfect match.
20:44You've got this personified as evil genius in Cummings and just plotting everything out,
20:49and Johnson going out, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
20:55I don't think Johnson needs these figures around him.
20:57He needs people around him who will effectively make decisions for him.
21:02You know, Cummings is a very strong figure.
21:08The thing about Dominic Cummings is he must run it.
21:12That's it.
21:13You know, there is no question in his own mind
21:16that he ever makes a mistake or that something can go wrong.
21:23In May 2020, Boris's closest advisor becomes the centre of the story.
21:29The Mirror and Observer newspapers have spoken to a member of the public
21:32who claims he saw Mr Cummings in the town of Barnard Castle on Easter Sunday
21:37when the message was, stay at home.
21:40Cummings then went on that rather strange drive around Barnard Castle
21:44to check if he had Covid or not, which was a bit weird.
21:47It was like the regulations didn't apply to them.
21:50They applied to everybody else.
21:53How, though? How?
21:54I'm a single parent.
21:56I've had no childcare since the beginning of this whole mess.
22:00Hypocrite.
22:00Hypocrite!
22:01Hypocrite! Hypocrite! Hypocrite!
22:05Two months into lockdown,
22:07Dominic Cummings is accused of flouting the Covid guidelines he helped write.
22:14In a pandemic, you have to pull everybody together.
22:18Cummings is entirely the opposite to that.
22:26Sorry I'm late.
22:31Yesterday I gave a full account to the Prime Minister of my actions.
22:34Mr Cummings has just subjected himself to your interrogation for quite a long time
22:39now about these very detailed matters and he spoke at great length.
22:44To me, my conclusion, I think he acted reasonably, legally and with integrity and with care.
22:50Well, he made it through again.
22:56Boris's natural instinct is to say it's not going to matter.
23:00Many of us said it's damaging to you.
23:03He couldn't see it at the time as damaging to him.
23:05He just thought it would, the public would go away from it.
23:10The Prime Minister, apparently his own father, has jetted off in defiance of the guidance to Greece.
23:17Even your own father has broken the restrictions by going to Greece.
23:20What will you say to your father?
23:22I think you really ought to raise that with him.
23:26You're closer to him than I am.
23:28I've been, you know, not particularly.
23:31I came here to have a quiet time to organise the house.
23:37And so, you know, I'm not 100% up to speed.
23:42Are you disappointed?
23:43Family conversations. I'm not going to take in detail.
23:44Are you disappointed?
23:45I think that I'm very, very pleased that the overwhelming majority of the British population...
23:51Yeah, but are you disappointed with Dad?
23:52I'm very pleased that the overwhelming majority of the British population...
23:54You're not going to give me one comment on Dad?
23:55The overwhelming majority of... No.
24:03Just six months after Boris backs him, Dominic Cummings is sent packing from Number 10.
24:10His small box of belongings tells little of the big hole he leaves
24:14at the heart of Boris Johnson's government.
24:16His power has tonight been taken away.
24:21Boris hopes Cummings' removal will calm tensions with his party and the public.
24:27I just think he wanted to move on. He thought this would all blow away.
24:31People would get it. It wouldn't be a big problem.
24:32But, of course, you know, you're dealing with a disgruntled, angry individual that you sacked,
24:37who is now making sure it's not going to go away and it's going to get even with you.
24:41And that's what he does.
25:01Despite hoping for a return to normality, Christmas 2020 is cancelled as Covid variants smash into Britain.
25:13To all those who may be feeling momentarily cast down or, frankly, in need of any kind of cheering up,
25:19I want to talk about what, for me, is the deeper meaning of Christmas,
25:23because it's not about presents or turkey or brandy butter. It's about hope.
25:29There really is a star in the sky. We have a vaccine.
25:35The UK becomes the first country in the world to approve a Covid vaccine.
25:40And the first to roll out a mass vaccination programme.
25:45Boris' response is, why can't we go quicker?
25:47I said, well, we're the first in the world, Prime Minister.
25:49Oh, no, we've got to go fast. We've got to go faster.
25:54Despite the vaccine, the UK becomes the first European country to record 100,000 Covid deaths.
26:03There's no doubt that the UK having such excessive death compared to other nations is a cause for concern.
26:13Order, order. The committee is now in session. I'm very pleased to welcome Dominic Cummings.
26:24The problem in this crisis was very much lions led by donkeys over and over again.
26:30I sent a message to the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Office is terrifying as shit,
26:34no plans, totally behind the pace. If I could have clicked my fingers, Hancock would have been fired.
26:39And I said, because this whole system is chaos, this building is chaos,
26:43but you are more frightened of me having the power to stop the chaos than you are of the chaos.
26:47The Prime Minister just like a shopping trolley, smashing from one side of the island to the other.
26:53Our relations are getting worse and worse. His girlfriend is desperate to get rid of me or my team.
26:58The Prime Minister knew that I blamed him for the whole situation. And I did.
27:05You've been very generous with your time. That concludes the session of the Joint Committee. Order, order.
27:15The Prime Minister, order, order.
27:15Mr Johnson!
27:16With political attacks growing on the Prime Minister, Boris suffers a huge personal setback.
27:23Losing his lifelong champion.
27:30At the end, although she could hear everything and understand everything, she couldn't talk.
27:34Her voice gave in.
27:38She was moved out of her nice flat.
27:42Covid, you couldn't even go and see her.
27:45So I don't think that elongated her life at all.
27:49We are just getting reports tonight that Charlotte Johnson,
27:53mother of the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has died suddenly.
27:58Questions from the media. Vicki Young from BBC News.
28:02Prime Minister, could I just start on part of all of us by extending our condonences to you and your
28:06family?
28:06Well, Kirsty, Vicki, sorry. First of all, thank you very much for your kind words.
28:16It was a good funeral. It was in a church near here, in Notting Hill Gate.
28:21First of all, I was absolutely astonished that, um, the four children carried her in and carried her out.
28:29The second thing which I noted was that, uh, while they were all up front,
28:35Stanley was there, but he was way back.
28:39Afterwards, here come the sandwiches.
28:43And I was absolutely amazed that Stanley then produced a large wodge of what turned out to be
28:53notices about his next book, when it was going to be published.
28:58And it was going to be, uh, you know, a meeting in this or that,
29:03Daunton, and please come if you can.
29:05And, um, I remember saying to Stanley, you know, really Stanley, that's a bit much.
29:12That's a bit much. I thought it was ill-chosen.
29:16Did you see Stanley and Boris there?
29:18I think all one can do is to say he is very much his father's son.
29:34He continued at full tilt. He didn't take any time off.
29:38She died in September 21. And I think Boris Johnson's prime ministership,
29:43I mean, his judgment deteriorated very markedly after his mother's death.
29:51A month after Charlotte dies, a political scandal erupts around Tory MP Owen Paterson.
30:03A parliamentary committee found that he broke the rules
30:07by repeatedly lobbying for two firms that paid him £112,000.
30:15But instead of backing the findings, Boris attempts to change the rules.
30:23Sajid Javid, the newly appointed health secretary, finds himself in a dilemma.
30:30We had the report from the parliamentary standards investigation,
30:34which I thought was a pretty clear-cut report.
30:37But all of a sudden, we had this attempt by Boris and his team to try and change the rulebook
30:44in parliament,
30:45which I think most of my colleagues couldn't understand, wouldn't agree with.
30:50And we were told to vote for it.
30:52I remember calling up the chief whip and asking,
30:55it can't be true.
30:57And the chief whip confirmed to me, this is what the boss wants,
30:59and this is how you're expected to vote.
31:07And that, I think, was a huge, huge mistake.
31:16I saw the video sort of on social media, I think, like everyone else.
31:20And it worried me a lot.
31:21I've just seen reports on Twitter that there was a Downing Street Christmas party on Friday night.
31:26Do you recognise those reports?
31:27I went home.
31:29Hold on, hold on.
31:37It worried me because Allegra is getting specifically asked a question about,
31:41you know, parties, you know, against the rules happening in Downing Street.
31:46And it worried me because I thought, why would someone ask that kind of question
31:49in a mock interview, unless it's something you're trying to sort of prepare for, just in case.
31:54Would the promise to condone a Howie Christmas?
31:58What's the answer?
31:59I don't know.
32:00I don't know.
32:00Is cheese and wine all right?
32:02It was a business meeting.
32:04I'm joking.
32:05This is recorded.
32:06This fictional party was a business meeting.
32:10And it was not socially distanced.
32:13One more.
32:15I was down to do what's called the morning media round.
32:19And I asked for assurances from the number 10 team about this video.
32:24And I was told absolutely categorically that there were no such parties.
32:30And so you should feel perfectly safe to go on on the media.
32:34Is there a question, Marco, of the assurances that you've received?
32:37No, I've received assurances.
32:39Do you believe those reassurances?
32:41No, I'm pleased I've got assurances.
32:42Do you believe them?
32:43I believe the assurances.
32:45Who are those assurances from?
32:46I'm not going to get into names.
32:48From Darning Street?
32:48In Darning Street.
32:49You're 100% confident?
32:51I'm absolutely confident in the heart of government that all rules would have been followed at all times.
33:01Some conservative backbenchers are openly voicing their anger at the aides involved.
33:06Can you stop, please?
33:07Can you stop?
33:07I'm going to make a statement.
33:08I felt very sorry for Allegra in that video.
33:11You know, a few hours later, the next day she resigned.
33:15I understand and share the anger at seeing number 10 staff seeming to make light of lockdown measures.
33:23I was also furious to see that clip.
33:28But I have been repeatedly assured that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken.
33:37And that is what I have been repeatedly assured.
33:42And that is what I have been told.
33:46As Boris denies all knowledge of any parties, Dominic Cummings tweets how it would be unwise
33:53for him to lie about this.
33:58Another problem for Boris is the detailed nature of the rule-breaking accusations,
34:03first broken by political journalist Pippa Creera.
34:08I pieced together all sorts of bits of evidence, I spoke to sources, I approached people,
34:14I pieced together dates, I corroborated evidence.
34:16It was just going through detail again and again and again and again.
34:19To find out that the people that were standing behind the podium in Downing Street,
34:24day after day after day, telling us, you need to follow these rules because,
34:29weren't following them themselves.
34:32I mean, I was, I didn't believe it at first.
34:39If this year, you need a bigger turkey and there are more sprouts to peel and
34:43more washing up to do, then that is all to the good.
34:47Because these rituals matter so deeply.
34:51Make it jump into your bed, with the cover of your head.
34:58Don't you lock the doors, you know the treats and bugs on the way.
35:04Well, I'm wishing you'd be Christmas every day.
35:22New Year 2022 brings little cheer for Boris.
35:27Allegations of a bring your own booze party in the number 10 garden hit the headlines.
35:33Mr Cummings, you say you have pictures. Are you going to be releasing those, Mr Cummings?
35:39We now come to Prime Minister's question.
35:43Dominic Cummings blogs that he will swear under oath,
35:46but Boris is lying about having no knowledge of this.
35:50So, the Prime Minister didn't spot that he was at a social event.
35:55I mean, how stupid does the Prime Minister think the British people are?
36:01I want to repeat that I thought it was a work event.
36:05And, Mr Speaker, it is so ridiculous that it's actually offensive to the British public.
36:14My grandmother's funeral.
36:16Only 10 people at the funeral.
36:17Many people who loved her had to watch online.
36:19I didn't hug my siblings. I didn't hug my parents. I gave a eulogy.
36:23And then, afterwards, I didn't even go to her house for a cup of tea.
36:27Does the Prime Minister think I'm a fool?
36:30His instinctive reaction from way back has been, when faced with a difficult situation,
36:35has been to double down on it, to deflect, to obfuscate, to deny.
36:40But there's nothing like visual evidence.
36:42There's nothing like seeing something to bring a story to life for people.
36:54Partygate just keeps getting worse.
36:56A new photo shows two dozen maskless people partying at Conservative headquarters in London.
37:00Yet another blow of allegations that multiple Christmas parties took place in Downing Street.
37:05I'm told that Boris Johnson loyalists are trying to shore up support for the Prime Minister.
37:10This latest party wasn't just a bit of cake in the office, was it? It was a party.
37:14He, as far as I can see, he was, in a sense, ambushed with a cake.
37:19Look, I went out there and defended him because he's my friend and he was my leader.
37:25I don't think most people would characterise that as a party.
37:29I will forever be remembered for ambushed by cake, although he assures me, by the way,
37:35there was no cake. But I felt it was my obligation to go and defend my friend and my boss.
37:41And bear in mind, the rules themselves were not that clear.
37:46Was eating a piece of birthday cake legitimate eating at work with people you were with anyway?
37:51There was no rule that said you weren't allowed to drink alcohol at work.
37:58This was not about cake and champagne and all of those things.
38:04Boris Johnson tried to trivialise it, or rather, he thought it was trivial from the beginning.
38:07He didn't understand how deeply people would feel about it.
38:11This party gate, beer gate or something.
38:13Yeah, but you know why?
38:14There is Boris, the Prime Minister, being fined by the police for breaking his own law.
38:19And 84 of his staff?
38:22He steps by for 20 minutes. It's his birthday.
38:25It wasn't a birthday party.
38:27Party which breaks his own rules.
38:29Hey, hey, Piers.
38:30When he was telling other people every day from the podium, you can't do this.
38:34It's high time. We moved on to things which were really mad.
38:37Why does the Prime Minister still think that the rules don't apply to him?
38:45It's one rule for them and one rule for everybody else.
38:47That's it, ultimately, in a nutshell.
38:51And actually, it wasn't the only time he's felt like that.
38:54I mean, Boris Johnson's whole history, his whole story,
38:58has been one that's been illustrated by feeling that he's exceptional.
39:07Eden was founded by Henry VI in 1440 for scholars.
39:16I think we're all products of our nurture and our nature.
39:22Eden is a very formative school for people who go there.
39:27It has such a powerful history and this leads to its effect on its pupils.
39:33Boris Johnson, has it ever been an embarrassment to you that you went to Eden?
39:37On the whole elite thing, I'm not actually against elites. I'm not against elitism.
39:43Every society we've ever known, every society open to our direct observation,
39:48has been ruled by an elite. Communist Russia, Communist China,
39:53everywhere is ruled by a very, very tight oligarchy.
39:56Many, many years ago, when I was at a school in Brussels, I was cast in the role of God.
40:04And it was absolutely brilliant. And I remember saying,
40:07and I will cause the water to inundate every creature that creepeth.
40:12Power, at that point.
40:14I was caught, exactly.
40:18It always had the capacity to go wrong for him, because the public liked Boris Johnson.
40:28Put up with his peccadillos.
40:30I was caught up with his peccadillos.
40:32Until they didn't.
40:33My job is to look exactly at what happened and to think which criticisms I need to learn from.
40:40Which criticisms of you? I'm not hearing you say, I am going to change.
40:46If you're saying you want me to undergo some sort of psychological transformation,
40:51our listeners would know that that is not going to happen.
40:56Of course, everyone who knows Boris knows that he's not going to change.
41:01But I think most people were hoping he wouldn't tell everyone he wasn't going to change.
41:08I think what Partygate did with him was put him in last chance saloon with his own MPs.
41:14Whatever the next scandal might have been that came along, his handling of it was going to be key.
41:27All good.
41:29Just a very small step to your left, please, Prime Minister.
41:33The whole period from January was a period of anxiety and siege and firefighting.
41:47This went in waves.
41:49Things would appear to calm down and it would look as if it was set fair.
41:53Then something else would happen.
41:54Another story would come along and it would seem more difficult again.
42:03Putin's invasion of Ukraine shifts the attention abroad.
42:07And Johnson becomes the leading figure in building a coalition of allies to fight back.
42:14It's not the size of the dog in the fight.
42:17It's the size of the fight in the dog.
42:20It's not the size of the dog in the fight.
42:21Ukraine will win.
42:31But on home soil, allies are thin on the ground as more and more Tory MPs grow restless.
42:42Pressure was building into the spring of 2022.
42:47Under the rules of the party, I receive letters from Conservative MPs asking for a confidence vote to take place.
42:54People say, was it stressful?
42:55The stressful part is waiting for something to happen.
42:59CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
43:19It became clear to the MPs that their constituents who they need to win the next election had fallen out
43:27of love with Boris Johnson.
43:30The vote in favour was 211 votes and the vote against was 148 votes.
43:37It was a clear win, but with a very significant minority of the Parliamentary Party voting no confidence.
43:54I asked to see Boris just one-on-one. I went to his office and I said, look, four out
43:59of ten of your colleagues voted against you and said they've got no confidence.
44:02That's huge. And he listened and he said, look, yeah, I get it and I understand and I've learnt my
44:09lesson, we're going to be different, we're going to get this right.
44:12A few weeks later, the Chris Pincher affair happens.
44:20Boris Johnson is facing cause to suspend one of his MPs who's alleged to have groped two men.
44:27Tory MP Chris Pincher had toiled to keep Boris afloat during Partygate and Boris had promoted him to Deputy Chief
44:35Whip.
44:36The BBC has been told that further concerns about his behaviour were raised before he was appointed as a Government
44:43Whip back in February.
44:45The Prime Minister reportedly said, is Pincher by name, Pincher by nature?
44:50Well, I have absolutely no idea.
44:53I go to prayer breakfast. Hundreds of people attend. I'm not particularly religious, I was invited.
45:01And I'm listening to a sermon there by, I think, Reverend Les Ilaks.
45:06The last two years has felt as if we have hit a rock bottom in terms of grief, discouragement and
45:17uncertainties.
45:19And that's making me think quite deeply about the situation I'm in and what should I do.
45:27All of us have the ability to influence and to make a difference.
45:32And we're called to serve for the common good, not just for the party, but for humanity.
45:39I start thinking about drafting a resignation letter.
45:43I even started thinking in my head about what would I say if I resign?
45:48What would a resignation letter look like? Just to help me make up my mind.
45:51As you seek to have influence and as you seek to exert your influence across our community,
45:59may the Lord help us as we continue to serve.
46:06And then when I'm in the car going to the cabinet meeting, straight from the prayer breakfast,
46:10I get a text message from one of my colleagues that says,
46:13have you seen this tweet from Simon MacDonald?
46:15Breaking news this morning in an explosive, unprecedented letter.
46:20The former permanent secretary of the Foreign Office has said that Downing Street is not telling the truth.
46:26Chris Pinscher's behaviour as a minister of state, there was an investigation.
46:33These investigations are very rare.
46:36And I knew that propriety and ethics had briefed the prime minister because I was told at the time
46:44that he knew an investigation had started and he knew how it had concluded.
46:52Number 10 was not sharing the full facts.
46:58People like me don't speak out, but I decided it was more important to get these facts out.
47:07I was amazed by what happened over the next 72 hours.
47:13It's all right.
47:15It's all right.
47:16It'll be good.
47:26Good morning, colleagues.
47:27Thank you very much.
47:28Because of the sensible and responsible decisions we've taken to get our economy recovering from COVID
47:35and because of the decisions we took to come out of lockdown,
47:38we're in a position to continue to help people through the...
47:42Various WhatsApp groups had suddenly become very quiet.
47:46And the fact that they were quiet in themselves was quite telling.
47:52It's like, what's wrong with them?
47:55So I knew something was brewing.
47:57Tax cut in a decade.
47:59I can't even remember half the discussion in the cabinet, but I actually make my decision in the cabinet meeting
48:03in my own head.
48:04Obviously don't say a thing to anyone.
48:09Sam, just going to interrupt you.
48:10We're just hearing that Sajid Javid has resigned.
48:13And yes, there's questions now about...
48:16I'm sorry, I've just got something pinging up on my phone that I need to check.
48:22I think Rishi Sunak has just resigned.
48:26The Tory party collectively went mad.
48:30I can't serve under the prime minister.
48:33To be clear, you have just, I believe in the last 30 seconds, resigned as a vice chair of the
48:38Conservative Party.
48:38There was a powerful sense that we were just being overcome.
48:44Like a, I don't know, like COVID on steroids.
48:47It just collectively infected.
48:49I believe a team is as good as its team captain.
48:54The events of recent months have made it increasingly difficult to be in that team.
48:59And at some point, we have to conclude that enough is enough.
49:06I believe that point is now.
49:12Two resignations during that half an hour, the prime minister's questions was on.
49:16I told Boris Johnson, in obviously what was an unwelcome and difficult conversation,
49:21that the mood of the parliamentary party was pretty clear.
49:25But the prime minister was very much of the mood that he wasn't going to concede.
49:37I did say to him that there are people that I thought were working against him.
49:41You know, the number of MPs, I can't, cannot tell you the number of MPs who come up to me
49:46and said,
49:47it wasn't planned, you know.
49:48There was no organisation behind this.
49:50It was just, it was just the herd moving, which actually tells me that it absolutely was.
50:01So I think there were lots of people on manoeuvres, but there wasn't a sort of a single organised orchestrated
50:08campaign.
50:08And I think it suits Boris Johnson and his allies now to suggest that there was,
50:14because it makes it somebody else's fault,
50:16when actually the only person that brought down Boris Johnson was Boris Johnson.
50:21Well, Boris Johnson has now broken a British political record
50:25for the highest number of ministerial resignations in the space of just 24 hours.
50:3143.
50:31If you're watching Love Island tonight, you want to switch over,
50:34because this is political hate island.
50:37I was sitting watching Love Island with the children,
50:40and I think William came in and said,
50:42Dad's been fired by Boris, or Boris has fired Dad.
50:45Is it game over for the prime minister?
50:49Michael's version is, I went in there to talk to Boris
50:52about the fact that everybody else was resigning,
50:55and that he probably should resign.
50:57This made Boris very upset, and then he fired Michael as a sort of,
50:59I think probably just this sort of, kind of,
51:01like, yeah, I'm just going to do something.
51:06I think he didn't quite believe it was happening.
51:11And I think he, I mean, he was bewildered.
51:15An emergency reshuffle this evening,
51:17a bodged-together new cabinet.
51:20We need to help you.
51:22Help you, guys.
51:22Are you going to be a recovery?
51:23Are you going to be a recovery?
51:24The sort of, the trickle went into a tsunami,
51:28which is why I texted Dom Raab and the chief whip
51:32to say we needed to sit down with the prime minister
51:34and just explain.
51:35I, I, I vehemently disagree.
51:37Boris was then in front of the liaison committee.
51:40Prime minister, how's your week going?
51:42Terrific.
51:43Did Michael Gove come and tell you to resign today?
51:46I'm here to talk about what the government is doing.
51:49Do you not feel, prime minister,
51:50the very ability, capacity of this government
51:52is, is deteriorating as we speak?
51:54There is a wealth of talent, Stephen.
51:56His team was still defiant,
51:59you know, sort of whiteboarding different names
52:02as names were falling off the whiteboard.
52:04The game's up, really.
52:05Will you be prime minister tomorrow?
52:07Of course, uh, Mr McNeil, uh, but...
52:10Next week?
52:11I'm, I'm, but I'm here to...
52:13We'll be doing this again, time and time again,
52:15if you stay in post, won't you?
52:16We're coming to this committee.
52:18I, I will.
52:19He's not asking that question.
52:21Well, I don't know quite what, I mean...
52:22You know exactly what I'm asking.
52:23You, you don't...
52:24This is all about you in the end.
52:26The reason these things happen is because of you.
52:29I hope that you will reflect
52:31that in the end, we're all dispensable.
52:35All flesh is grass.
52:36The welfare of the British people
52:37and the security of the nation are indispensable.
52:47My being his chancellor, was invited to sit with him
52:50and he said, look, come on, Nadi,
52:51we did it on the vaccine, we can do this again.
52:53You, you know...
52:54I said, look, I'll do anything
52:57that you asked me to do.
52:58I'm just really saying to you
53:00that we're not going to be able to survive
53:03the next 24 hours.
53:05Liar!
53:07Liar!
53:09Liar!
53:10The worst PM in history.
53:12Liar!
53:13They're going to drag you a carcass out of this place
53:15and I can't bear to see that happen.
53:17Liar!
53:18Liar!
53:19Liar!
53:21Liar!
53:21Liar!
53:22Liar!
53:23I was upstairs in the flat with Carrie
53:25and I did pop downstairs
53:27and go in and say to him
53:28in his study, look, you know,
53:32if the men in grey suits and the revolver
53:34and the whisky come,
53:35just show them the door.
53:36You know, you've got an 80 majority.
53:39You've got the biggest majority
53:41in the Conservative Party
53:42for an entire generation.
53:44We've probably never ever seen
53:47a political leader in this country
53:49who literally had the world at his feet,
53:53a tide of goodwill,
53:55an opportunity with a whopping majority
53:58to really be a radical,
54:00to really be a history books kind of premier
54:03and Johnson had all of that in front of him
54:06and he blew it all.
54:09There's, in a way, the tragedy.
54:11I think it is a tragedy
54:13because here's a man with extraordinary gifts,
54:16talents and attributes
54:18who was undone in the end
54:20by his own failings
54:23and the flaws in his character.
54:24Of all the politicians I've met in my life,
54:27there's never been one I didn't trust
54:29as much as Boris Johnson.
54:31Well, he debased British democracy
54:34because he pushed it to its absolute limits.
54:38He's made us a louder, noisier place.
54:44I think history will see Boris Johnson
54:47as responsible for one of the biggest
54:50diplomatic mistakes of modern history.
55:00I went into the Cabinet Office that morning
55:02and somebody stuck a microphone under my nose
55:04and said, are you still supporting the Prime Minister?
55:06I said, yeah, of course I'm still supporting the Prime Minister.
55:08These sort of squalls happen in politics,
55:10but these best politicians carry on calmly.
55:12I then get into my office
55:13and I'm told that the Prime Minister's already decided to go,
55:16so I was still supporting him
55:18even after the resignation had been released.
55:22I know that even if things can sometimes seem dark now,
55:27our future together is golden.
55:31Thank you all very much.
55:51Boris is, in political terms, still young.
55:57That period of premiership,
55:59I don't think he regards it as a full stop.
56:02I think he regards it as a comma.
56:25A year that divided communities
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56:45because of the coming of the big things.
56:47Now, we're going to get into our effects.
56:47I need to go to the beginning of this episode.
56:47Just give us a moment.
56:47Tell us how to make the family
56:47and a few more people
56:48Now, let's take a moment of life
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