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Boris achieves his long-held ambition of becoming PM, but scandals from his private life emerge and it becomes tough at the top. Finding himself in a corner, Boris makes some outlandish moves.
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00:24It gets lonely at the top, especially when
00:28you're always putting on an act.
00:34There's a lot of brilliance in him, and people admire him for it, and when he spoke to you,
00:42he had a way of making you feel like you were the most important thing in his life.
00:49But the man behind the curtain, like any great Wizard of Oz, reveals this is a man that's
01:00extremely haunted by a lot of skeletons from his past.
01:05CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:38Boris Johnson is now Prime Minister, a world leader, but he has problems to contend with.
01:48We're going to restore trust in our democracy, and we're going to fulfil the repeated promises
01:54of Parliament to the people, and come out of the EU on October 31st, no ifs or buts.
02:03This Government will work flat out to give this country the leadership it deserves.
02:08And that work begins now. Thank you very much.
02:18I remember going in with Carrie on the day he went into Number 10. I was with her as we
02:24stood
02:24outside the door, clapping him in as he arrived. There'd be no previous Prime Minister who hadn't
02:33come into Number 10 with his wife. So to actually come into Number 10 with a girlfriend is...
02:40..was breaking... You know, it was totally new ground.
02:44So it was a concern as to whether that would work against him.
02:50But he was determined when he arrived at Number 10, he would be able to take control.
03:19MUSIC PLAYS
03:21Within hours of coming to power, in a bold move, Boris forces out an unprecedented number of
03:27the Cabinet. Dispensing with rivals and critics, he quickly assembles loyalists and Brexiteers.
03:35Even making space for the man who betrayed him, Michael Gove.
03:42Right. Morning, everybody. And it is wonderful to see this new team assembled here, respecting, I think,
03:49the depth and breadth of talent in our extraordinary party.
03:54Boris chooses Matt Hancock for Health Secretary.
03:57Cabinet with Boris was completely different to Cabinet with Theresa May, as you can imagine.
04:02And, er, I think in his first Cabinet, he's started by saying,
04:06right, we've got an hour, so let's try to wrap this one up.
04:09Fellow Etonian Jacob Rees-Mogg becomes his new leader of the House of Commons.
04:14I've nailed my colours very firmly to the Boris Johnson mast, and I'm very glad that I've done so.
04:20Er, I think it was the right thing to do, and, er, he is an exceptional leader.
04:25He promotes Gavin Williamson to Secretary for Education.
04:29He was asking me, who does he make Chancellor, and I said to him,
04:33make the person Chancellor who ideally you've got a good relationship with, er, who's ideally a friend.
04:41And he was like, well, I don't have that many friends in politics.
04:49Yeah.
04:51You know, he told me he wanted to have me in his team.
04:57There was a chance that I was living in Downing Street,
04:59and it meant that you'd see more of each other, especially in informal settings.
05:04You'd literally bump into each other, especially at weekends.
05:09I remember my daughter, at the time she would have been about ten.
05:13One Saturday morning she took the dog out into the garden
05:17and, er, comes back up and very sort of matter-of-factly then said,
05:21oh, Dad, I just ran into Boris in the garden.
05:24He was in his boxes again.
05:25And he was with Dylan, his dog, and he said, oh, er, you're around later today
05:29and he wants to see you about twelve.
05:31What do you want me to tell him?
05:32And so, you know, that was what life was like in Downing Street.
05:37In amongst the Brexiteers, Boris also appoints his younger brother, Joe,
05:43a staunt Remainer.
05:47Look, I mean, in the campaign there were undoubtedly promises made
05:52that have shown to be undeliverable.
05:55Is that an elegant way of saying that we were lied to?
05:57Well, look, it was a false prospectus.
05:59It was a fantasy set of promises that have been shown up for what they were.
06:06And with just three months to deliver Brexit, there's one thing standing in his way.
06:13Parliament.
06:14It was a terrible time.
06:16There seemed to be a sort of rigor mortis had taken over in Westminster.
06:22We're going round and round in circles.
06:26And British politics was kind of locked in a debilitating limbo.
06:32We had defeated the government forty times on various aspects of Brexit.
06:47Order.
06:48Statement.
06:49The Prime Minister.
06:50Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
06:56With permission, I shall make a statement on the mission of this new Conservative government.
07:00Parliamentary system plays into this Oxford Union nonsense, which is about you just throw abuse around,
07:12you try to belittle your opponent, you try to mock them.
07:23Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
07:28If the Prime Minister continues to pursue a reckless no deal, does he accept that he would be directly flouting
07:37the expressed will of this Parliament?
07:41He speaks about trust in our democracy, Mr. Speaker.
07:44And I have to say, the most extraordinary thing has just happened today.
07:49Did anybody notice what happened today?
07:51Did anybody notice the terrible metamorphosis that took place, like the final scene of invasion of the body snatchers?
07:58At last, at last, this long-standing Eurosceptic, the Right Honourable Gentleman, has been captured.
08:05He has been jugulated.
08:08He has been reprogrammed by his honourable friends.
08:12And he has been turned now into a Romainer.
08:18He wants, he wants, he is, he has turned Labour into the party.
08:23I would like to look inside Boris Johnson's head and find what's there.
08:27Because I think there is a very intelligent, calculating individual there, who lives in a persona which is the opposite.
08:41The Right Honourable Gentleman, who has been paid by press TV, who repeatedly sides with the mullahs of Tehran rather
08:53than our friends in the United States over what is happening in the Persian Gulf.
08:57How incredible that we should even think of entrusting that gentleman with the stewardship of this country's security.
09:05It's Liam Blackburn.
09:07Yeah!
09:08Try to take Scotland, try to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union on a no-deal basis.
09:15Parliament will stop this madness in its tracks.
09:20Parliament was terrible.
09:22I mean, there's no other word to describe it.
09:24They were sabotaging any negotiations with Europe, if they could.
09:28Everything was a fight.
09:30I think it made him realise that getting Brexit through was going to be a very, very difficult battle.
09:37So something had to give.
09:46Boris begins hatching his own plan for dealing with Parliament.
09:51But it's not the only problem he's contending with.
09:54He's negotiating a divorce from Marina, his second wife, and the mother of four of his children.
10:02And a scandal from his past is about to break.
10:21That's his missus.
10:23That's his wife, yeah.
10:24That's his wife, huh?
10:25Yeah.
10:27July 2018.
10:29Boris' second wife, Marina, is moving out.
10:32It follows the revelation of an affair with his colleague, Carrie Simmons.
10:38This isn't the first time Boris has been unfaithful.
10:41His relationship with women is a complex one, beginning with his first serious girlfriend when he was a student.
10:48I first met his beautiful and delightful girlfriend, Allegra Mostino.
10:55She'd been on the cover of the Tatler magazine, photographed by David Bailey.
11:02Allegra said to me, will you meet my boyfriend? He wants to get into journalism.
11:07I thought he was very bright, very energetic. Not arrogant. Very good company, actually.
11:14I went to the wedding. It was beautifully done.
11:20Allegra wanted Boris to wear a ring, and Boris didn't want to.
11:23And he managed to lose the ring within about two hours of their getting married.
11:30Boris was 23 when he married Allegra.
11:34Like his parents before him, the pair met at university.
11:39Yes, he did tell Allegra that she reminded him of his mother.
11:42I mean, that's obviously a very serious compliment.
11:46I think he really wanted the approval of liberal-minded, particularly women,
11:51and was pained if they'd thought he was a monster.
11:54For example, he was very, very stricken when his first marriage broke down.
12:00He'd been very inconsiderate in his behaviour, but he still didn't want it to break down.
12:07He's very needy, actually. He doesn't like being alone.
12:10And he hasn't very often been alone. He can't bear it.
12:17Twelve days after his divorce from Allegra is finalised, Boris marries Marina.
12:23He was eight months pregnant.
12:26So I think she was undoubtedly a stabilising influence.
12:30She was very, very good at telling him when his behaviour was intolerable,
12:35or when what he was doing was intolerable.
12:38I mean, she chucked him out from time to time,
12:40but she didn't sort of hurl him into outer space.
12:43He sort of moved to a room down the road or something,
12:45or go and stay with friends.
12:46So there was a way back on several occasions.
12:51Seven years into his marriage, and just after the birth of his fourth child,
12:57Boris becomes editor of The Spectator magazine
12:59and starts a relationship with a colleague.
13:03He was a very loyal person, and I think that means a lot in a relationship.
13:11There was this solid foundation of trust,
13:16and it got to the point where I felt I could tell Boris almost anything.
13:22Which was very nice, because that doesn't often happen.
13:27You really felt like he was protecting you.
13:33He liked to see himself as a sort of knight from Camelot,
13:39which wasn't always true, but it was nice that he wanted to see himself that way.
13:47But I noticed that it was somebody who doesn't like arguments,
13:56because arguing means that the other person might dislike him.
14:03And whenever I used to get angry, I could see him looking terrified.
14:09So everything would sort of be bottled up, and I wouldn't say it would fester,
14:15but it wasn't that healthy, and he sort of lacked moral courage.
14:22And that was why he would tell lies.
14:26So he had promised people things that you knew that he never meant to keep,
14:31and it wasn't because he wanted to hurt them or disappoint them.
14:35He just wanted to please them at that given moment,
14:38and then he'd think,
14:39oh, my God, how am I going to get out of it?
14:50Summer 2019.
14:53Boris came to power promising that he would get Brexit done.
14:57But he needs his plan to be approved by Parliament.
15:01And so far, they have blocked him.
15:05Lack of self-confidence is never something that I'd imagine
15:08would have been written in any of Boris' school reports.
15:11He believes in himself in a way that, you know,
15:16I'd never really seen in anyone else.
15:21And it's that confidence, it's that bravado,
15:23it's that belief that carries him so well.
15:28You know, he's willing to take risks.
15:30He's willing to break the mould,
15:32because Boris, I believe, always believes in Boris.
15:38One month into his premiership,
15:41and Boris decides to do something extraordinary.
15:45Shut Parliament down.
15:47According to an old British law,
15:50Parliament can be put into recess
15:51if it's at the end of a parliamentary session,
15:54in a process called prorogation.
15:58That was like declaring war on Parliament.
16:00I mean, I don't think it's ever been done before.
16:03Not in these circumstances.
16:05I mean, you probe Parliament at the end of its parliamentary time,
16:07but not to do it like that.
16:12Boris' plan is that during this recess,
16:15with Parliament unable to challenge him,
16:18he will be able to push through Brexit however he wishes.
16:24But to prorogue Parliament,
16:26he first needs permission from Her Majesty the Queen.
16:31Whilst Boris stays in Westminster,
16:35he sends his ally Jacob Rees-Mogg
16:37on a secret mission to Balmoral.
16:43But before Rees-Mogg has taken off,
16:46news of his mission has spread.
16:49The former Prime Minister, St John Major,
16:50has said he would go to court
16:52to stop Parliament being suspended over Brexit.
16:54People feel like it would be extremely undemocratic
16:56to suspend MPs in sitting
16:58to avoid them from expressing a view
17:00that's opposing to the Prime Minister.
17:01The last time this was done,
17:03wasn't there a civil war?
17:07I'm thinking this is not quite as secret as was intended.
17:11As soon as I get to Heathrow,
17:12people start asking me for selfies.
17:15We were meant to be getting as incognito as possible.
17:20As we're getting off the plane,
17:22we are on a telephone call for a Cabinet meeting
17:24to approve the prorogation,
17:26which was meant to be done later in a more calm sense,
17:30but it was done literally as we were walking off the plane.
17:41Then we have this wonderful trip to Balmoral
17:44in a shower bank,
17:46whose kind descent by the royal household,
17:50with the late Queen's hairdresser,
17:52who is absolutely brilliant.
17:57So we had a very jolly journey with him telling the stories.
18:02And then we're taken in to see the Queen.
18:08Joined by one of her corgis.
18:11A very elderly and I think deaf corgi.
18:14And Her Majesty thought it was not suitable for the corgi to remain.
18:18So the Queen was trying to shuffle out this deaf corgi
18:22that was very reluctant to go.
18:24And we got down to the business of the prorogation.
18:31Boris Johnson has successfully sought to suspend Parliament
18:35in a bid to prevent MPs from thwarting Brexit.
18:38A development which only four days ago
18:40was described by Downing Street as entirely false.
18:44Today, the Prime Minister basically said,
18:47let's take Parliament out of the equation
18:49so we can, you know, get on with this thing.
18:51He's acting like some kind of tin pot dictator.
18:55And if MPs don't stop it, then it is no exaggeration,
18:59it is not hyperbole to say this is the day
19:01any semblance of UK parliamentary democracy absolutely dies.
19:07Boris Johnson wants to write himself into history,
19:10but the methods he'll pursue to do that
19:12could make or break him too.
19:15Stop the coup! Stop the coup! Stop the coup!
19:18Stop the coup! Stop the coup!
19:19Within hours, the public take to the streets,
19:23accusing Boris of undermining democracy.
19:26People may say this is an un-democratic move.
19:30I'd say they wouldn't know what they were talking about.
19:31It's normal functioning of our Constitution.
19:33It was this sort of arrogant confidence of these people
19:38that sort of get away with things.
19:40Demonstrations are taking place everywhere
19:42because people are angered and outraged
19:45at what is happening.
19:46Think on Boris!
19:48It's not on!
19:49It's not over this!
19:50The love killed one!
19:53Save our democracy!
19:56While protests continue in London,
19:58Boris heads north to face the public.
20:01Thank you very much, Jake.
20:03Well, good morning everybody.
20:03It's great to be here in Rotherham in the Magna Centre,
20:09which is the, of course, the plural of magnum,
20:13which, as everybody knows, is the Latin for ice cream.
20:18Why are you not with them in Parliament,
20:20sorting out the mess that you have created?
20:22Would you mind? I'm very happy, I'm very happy to see...
20:26Why don't you sort it out, Boris? Why don't you sort it out?
20:29Well, nice to meet you.
20:31Please leave my town.
20:32I will very soon.
20:35You should be in Brussels negotiating!
20:38Yes, we have been negotiating.
20:38You are not! You are in Morley, in Leeds!
20:41While Boris is being accosted in Leeds,
20:45news breaks closer to home.
20:48His own brother has quit the Cabinet.
20:52Can you tell us when you're planning to resign?
20:53I haven't had any further comments to say,
20:55other than it's been an honour to be MP for Orpington
20:56and a minister under three governments,
20:58but it's time to move on and I've got to get to work.
21:01Sorry, I beg your pardon.
21:03Are you completely at odds with your brother, Mr Johnson?
21:06See you, folks.
21:09How can I, or any rational voter,
21:11trust Boris to act in the national interest
21:13if his own brother can't?
21:16I'm sure you've seen in the news,
21:17Joe Johnson resigns as an MP and minister saying
21:20he was torn between family, loyalty and the national interest.
21:25I've already made some comments.
21:26Thank you very much.
21:29I remember speaking to Boris on the day Joe resigned
21:33and I often thought the extraordinary thing
21:36is that Joe did that without telling Boris,
21:39because he's, you know, I spoke to him and said,
21:40you know, what does it mean?
21:41He said, well, I don't know, he didn't even tell me.
21:45I think he was pretty shaken by it.
21:49Mr Johnson, you said you wouldn't unite our country.
21:52If your own brother doesn't trust you
21:55to act in the national interest, why should all of we?
21:59Well, Joe doesn't agree with me about the European Union,
22:04because it's an issue that obviously divides families
22:08and divides everybody.
22:10But I think what Joe would agree is that we need to get on
22:12and sort this thing out.
22:15If your own brother has lost faith in your plan,
22:18surely you'll have to be the next member of the Johnson family
22:20to resign.
22:22Well, er...
22:25You're all right.
22:27Oh, it's all right, I'm so sorry.
22:29OK, I just, I think that's, that is a signal for me actively
22:32to wind up, thank you.
22:36It's quite hurtful, really.
22:38I mean, it's quite painful to know that even your own brother
22:41is not supporting you.
22:43And he was very isolated in this battle.
22:49Now, I was never worried about him.
22:51I mean, he's very robust, but you could tell it was taking a toll.
22:56I mean, everything, in every direction, was difficult.
23:04While he may have dealt with Parliament for now,
23:07this is just one of a number of plates he has spinning.
23:11In his private life,
23:13he is still negotiating a divorce from his wife, Marina.
23:18And the press is delving into a previous relationship
23:22when Boris was mayor.
23:26I established a source who had a huge hard drive of emails
23:31between this young, spunky American graduate
23:36by the name of Jennifer R. Curie
23:38and then occupant of City Hall, Boris Johnson.
23:43You know, our interest in the story, you know, wasn't prurient.
23:46It wasn't just about whether they were an item sexually.
23:50I mean, it was, did this or did it not involve kind of improper conduct
23:54for a person in elected office?
23:56And his status as mayor was at the heart of their relationship
24:00and what he stood to offer her.
24:02Thank you very much, everybody, for coming along today.
24:05I hope you're having a productive session.
24:07And Jennifer's now going to instruct me.
24:09We've now got to go over and talk to California, is that right?
24:12Are you ready to hang out?
24:14Yeah! Look at that! Boris is hanging out!
24:21He's not the womanizer people think he is.
24:25They think because he's got all these women and all these escapades,
24:29really it's an emotional insecurity, this man.
24:34Now, that doesn't mean that he didn't have, you know,
24:38affairs or flings with other people.
24:40I did. So, I mean, I was still dating...
24:43I was 26!
24:47Boris was mayor of London when he first met Jennifer,
24:50a rising tech star,
24:52and she asked him to speak at her business's event.
24:55You know, he was like, Jennifer,
24:56I'm going to lay this all out on the table.
24:58I want to date you.
25:00I said, oh, no, see, I'm way too much for you.
25:03I'm high maintenance.
25:05And he was like, what?
25:05Like, handbags and shit.
25:07You know, he just, and he had like a little laugh,
25:10and I thought, no, I'm far too much work.
25:13This is going to be a disaster.
25:15And he was like, and he starts laughing.
25:16He's like, I like you.
25:18I like you a lot.
25:19A lot. A lot.
25:21And he's like, and I can't stop thinking about you.
25:26One of the things I noticed,
25:29whether it was pressure, stress, paranoia,
25:32there just seemed to be times
25:35when he became very emotionally needy.
25:38And that was when you saw a lot of recklessness
25:41and kind of toxic behavior.
25:49You know, this, I don't know, maybe the obsession with women,
25:54or, you know, one of his friends from childhood called it mommy issues
25:58when he was explaining to me his emotional need to be validated by women
26:05and how much that was a big part of who he was.
26:12It made me concerned with how close one could get to this man without getting burned.
26:22I started to hear rumors of how he had had an affair with another woman
26:28and had a child with her outside of his marriage.
26:33And he looks at me and he says something like,
26:35Now, Jennifer, I like you a lot.
26:38And I love my family.
26:39And I love my children.
26:41He's like, but you must promise me one thing.
26:44He's like, you mustn't read the news.
26:47You mustn't read the news. Promise me.
26:49I said, well, a girl's got to ask.
26:51And I will always be honest with you, always.
26:54But you must never read the paper.
26:56You know, you have questions, you come to me and me alone.
26:59He said to me one time, Jennifer, I want to be very clear.
27:04All jokes aside, no bullshit.
27:07Very seriously, he's like, I care about you a lot.
27:11And I never, ever want to hurt you.
27:30September 2019.
27:33And Boris is in New York,
27:36meeting world leaders for a climate summit at the United Nations.
27:42He is just two months into his premiership,
27:45which has been continuously engulfed in controversy.
27:49But things are about to get worse.
27:51The Arcuri story is breaking.
28:06More scrutiny for the Prime Minister over links to a US businesswoman.
28:10Now the police watchdog is involved.
28:12I've got to ask you about the allegations against the Prime Minister today.
28:16Have you sought reassurances that this was not a relationship that needed to be declared?
28:21She's one of the most talked about women at the heart of a political scandal involving sex, money and foreign
28:29trips.
28:30Did you misuse public funds?
28:32Everything that I did was done in complete conformity with the rules.
28:36What was the nature of your relationship with Jennifer Arcuri?
28:39Were you friends or was it something else?
28:41I worked incredibly hard as mayor of London to promote our city.
28:45Are you still in touch with her?
28:49I was very upset about the way they portrayed me in the press.
28:55I left that man years ago.
28:57I was happily moved on.
29:02What was your relationship with Jennifer Arcuri, Prime Minister?
29:05Do you have an interest to declare?
29:07It was disgusting the way we were treated.
29:09You know, just the way jumping out of trees, following us in the car.
29:14I had to lay in the back seat not to be harassed.
29:17They stand outside my daughter's school on school runs, take pictures across the street.
29:23I mean, it was just so intrusive.
29:26With press interest growing and unsure how to respond, Jennifer tries to reach out to Boris for help.
29:36I just thought, okay, let's be logical. I'll just send him a text.
29:41You know, we should probably talk.
29:44And that's when I noticed I had been blocked.
29:48And I thought that was very strange.
29:49He doesn't do things like that.
29:51That's not who he is.
29:54And then I got through and he said, yes, hello.
29:58And I said, what's going on?
30:01Why did you block me?
30:03And the phone was taken.
30:06You know, and then you hear this, what do you want?
30:08Who are you talking to?
30:10And somebody clearly mocking me, pretending to be some Chinese tourist.
30:16Hello? You know, just really obnoxious.
30:22There's no reason why two adults couldn't speak, especially when the stakes are this high.
30:29You know, it uprooted everything in my family.
30:31And to not be able to speak to him about that.
30:38What a wimp.
30:39What a spineless coward.
30:43And I hate saying that, because I cared a great deal about the man.
30:47And I know he cared about me.
30:49But that's cowardice. Call it what it is.
30:53And women, if men do that to you, that is a get the hell out of here now kind of
30:57trait.
30:59As the story continues making waves, just two days later, Boris is again under scrutiny.
31:08This time, over prorogation.
31:11Boris maintains his actions were legitimate.
31:15And any challenge is a move to undermine Brexit.
31:19But a private citizen, Gina Miller, is taking him to the Supreme Court
31:25to question whether he acted lawfully.
31:28Respect democracy, Miller!
31:31Respect democracy!
31:31I'll just throw us in fucking 400,000!
31:34200,000!
31:37Go fucking help yourself!
31:40To the gallows!
31:43Traitor! Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!
31:50Every day, Boris Johnson were telling people like this that I was stealing their Brexit, that I was going against
31:59the will of the people, against their will.
32:01And he was fuelling the anger that they were feeling towards me.
32:05We're going to hell!
32:07Um, it was unbelievable.
32:11Thank you very much!
32:15This is one of the biggest constitutional cases for 200 years.
32:18To take on a government, to ask the courts, can Parliament, our entire Parliament, be closed down and bypassed?
32:26Can a Prime Minister do this?
32:28Is he basically betraying our democracy and our parliamentary sovereignty?
32:34All rise!
32:36The Supreme Court will make an historic judgment later on Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament.
32:42Over 30 million people watched the proceedings online.
32:46This judgment is the unanimous judgment of all 11 justices.
32:54The Court is bound to conclude, therefore, that the decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament was unlawful.
33:07The ruling today speaks volumes.
33:11This Prime Minister must open the doors of Parliament tomorrow.
33:24It was all a big game.
33:27You've got somebody in Boris who really doesn't care about the consequences of what he does.
33:32It's always about winning and being in power.
33:37Boris is in New York with Donald Trump when the verdict comes through.
33:43He's been in New York with Donald Trump.
33:43Well, thank you very much, everyone.
33:45It's great to be with my friend Boris Johnson.
33:47I've just got a position that he's having a very easy time with.
33:52It's much easier than you thought.
33:53I was just saying, is it tougher or easier?
33:55He said, well it's, I guess, what he expected.
33:57I think it's pretty much what you expected.
33:59It is.
33:59Senator Johnson, some of your critics are saying that you should resign because you misled the queen with regard to
34:05shutting parliament down.
34:06How do you respond to that?
34:07Well, as I said earlier on, thank you very much.
34:10Well, as I said earlier on, let's be absolutely clear.
34:14We respect the judiciary in our country.
34:17We respect the court.
34:21I disagree profoundly with what they had to say.
34:25Mr. President, what was your reaction when you heard the UK Supreme Court decision?
34:31What was your reaction?
34:32I had no reaction.
34:33I just asked Boris, and, you know, to him, it's another day in the office.
34:37He's a professional.
34:38It's just another day in the office.
34:40Yeah, well, tomorrow is another day in Parliament.
34:42That's what he said.
34:44We're full of respect, as I say, for the justices of our Supreme Court.
34:50But we're going to push on.
34:52We're going to respect what the court had to say, but we're going to get on and deliver Brexit.
34:57I think that's what the British people want to say.
34:58In other words, he's been very nice to the court.
35:01He has total respect for the court.
35:03Yeah, Jim.
35:04Mr. President, on a separate subject, can you explain why...
35:06What you've got in Boris Johnson and Donald Trump is you had two individuals who were
35:11playing from exactly the same script, which was to take their country to a much more autocratic
35:16state where they're unanswerable to the people of the country and where they're, through
35:22division, they were gaining power.
35:29Now Boris must return to Parliament to face the music.
35:37Why does he think he can treat the Queen and country with such utter contempt?
35:48Even my five-year-old knows that if you do something wrong, you have to say sorry.
35:56After yesterday's ruling, Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister should have done the honourable
36:03thing and resigned.
36:12A lot of people in Parliament were saying, my goodness, the Prime Minister has lost a case.
36:20This is catastrophic.
36:21This is devastating.
36:23And I said, no, it probably isn't.
36:26It is absolutely no disrespect to the judiciary to say I think the court was wrong.
36:32To pronounce on what is essentially a political question at a time.
36:39Order!
36:43Whilst Boris strategises his next move to push Brexit through, the questions keep coming.
36:51Some people don't support your approach.
36:54Even your own brother Joe walked out of your government and he said he'd stand down as an
36:59MP just six weeks after agreeing to stick by you.
37:03That must have been really hard for you.
37:04Yes.
37:05Yes.
37:06But, I mean, look, we're a very tight-knit, close-knit family and there may be people who
37:10disagree with that.
37:11But I think that's the way for it.
37:12She talked about your language, though, and she said that my brother using words like
37:14should be hung drawn quarter-tired and feathered.
37:16I think it's highly reprehensible.
37:18Did you talk to her about that after she said that to you?
37:21Well, look, I regret it.
37:23I don't want to go into conversations between members of my family, which is what I say
37:29is a very loving and tight-knit family.
37:31Were you having an affair with Jennifer?
37:33I've said what I've had to say about that matter.
37:37I wouldn't ask unless you had become a matter of public.
37:41You want to believe that your friend can be a great leader and you want to believe that
37:45he can handle the pressure.
37:47But if he can't even handle the confrontation of his own personal life, the man can't clean
37:54up his own laundry, there's no way he's going to do it for the country.
37:59Everything is done with complete propriety.
38:01And I may say, I think it is very interesting.
38:04The reason I ask is I don't want to talk about your private life.
38:07It's the issue about whether you misuse public money.
38:09That's why I'm asking whether you have a sexual relationship with him.
38:10Well, I can certainly say there was absolutely no, there was no question of that.
38:15Our allegations are going to ruin this.
38:18Don't you, Robert?
38:29In the past.
38:36Boris needs to get Brexit done and cement his place in Parliament.
38:42To do that, he needs a clear majority over the opposition.
38:46So he makes a decision. He will announce an election.
38:51It was blazingly obvious that Boris was just going to keep going,
38:55you know, keep driving forward relentlessly until he got Brexit done.
38:59He had to, right?
39:00If he gave up, he would have been the shortest-term prime minister then in history.
39:06But having faced a wave of political and personal scandals
39:10and just three months into his premiership,
39:13it's the biggest gamble of his career to date.
39:17Are you ready for the contest ahead?
39:21Are you pumped up?
39:27Let's go out there and win! Win that election!
39:30Win for Labour and get a Labour government!
39:41The thing I think that I noticed was that having been released finally
39:46from that dreadful, suffocating cockpit called Westminster for him,
39:50he was back in the one place that you want him.
39:54You want him on the public stage.
39:56He's very good with people.
39:58He likes interacting with people and makes them feel good.
40:03And that's true, I think, whether he's campaigning politically
40:06or he's in a social setting.
40:08He's the kind of person you'd sort of want to be around
40:12if you want to have a good time and have some fun conversation.
40:18Yeah, you've definitely got our vote. We do not like government.
40:22It's time to bring our divided country together!
40:27It was obviously a very pressurised time.
40:31But I don't think he'd be particularly worrying his head
40:35about details of anything, actually.
40:37And I remember I phoned him up and he said,
40:41I'm going to be working, my hand is going to be firmly tied to the oar.
40:47I will be pulling the boat along.
40:50OK.
40:51So I said, well, if your hand is tied to one oar,
40:56the boat will be going in circles.
40:59And he said, good point.
41:01And he then went off in ancient Greek
41:07about the effect of a boat going in circles,
41:09which I didn't understand at all.
41:11Come on, how are you? Nice to see you.
41:13Thanks. Oh, so sorry. Thanks for coming.
41:19You've been going for 13 hours now.
41:21Nothing.
41:22We're hard as nails.
41:25Steel springs, that's what we are.
41:27Steel springs.
41:28It's a 13 hour day.
41:29I have a, I don't know, I think it's genetic.
41:31I have a lot of energy.
41:32I have a lot of energy.
41:32Are you haribos by the bunch load?
41:34No, I don't.
41:35I sometimes succumb to flapjacks.
41:40He set out the general narrative of what he wanted and his style,
41:44he would just keep on saying, the whole issue is get Brexit done.
41:49And I challenged him and said, well, you're not going to get Brexit done.
41:52It's not all going to be over on polling day.
41:54You know that.
41:56And he said, we're going to get Brexit done.
41:57We're going to get Brexit done.
41:58I mean, at one level, it's clever, but at the other level, it's totally responsible.
42:05He would always try to portray me as some kind of evil force within our society, which
42:15was then parroted by the papers.
42:18Sunday afternoon, I sat down and I read the Daily Mail, page after page, about what an
42:25evil person Jeremy Corbyn was, page after page, this man grows his own vegetables, this
42:31man keeps a cat, this man, et cetera, et cetera.
42:34And so I got to the end of it and put the paper down, looked at the cat and I
42:40said, that Corbyn,
42:42God, he's an evil sod.
42:44It was just the demonization of me.
42:49It was unbelievable.
42:56A very good evening.
42:57For the fourth time in the space of five years, the future of the United Kingdom is uncertain.
43:02And this time, with politics in deadlock and Brexit unresolved, the stakes are higher than
43:08ever.
43:11This is a Conservative gain from Labour.
43:14This is in Greater Manchester.
43:15Looking at a seat like that, going from red to blue, that's astonishing.
43:19Well, I never thought in all this time that I'd see Wrexham, of all places, turning Conservative.
43:26Boris Johnson, who just a year ago was on the back benches, may just have redrawn the map.
43:33Boris Johnson has this extraordinary connection with voters.
43:37People like Boris's approach to life.
43:40They like his aballiance.
43:42The fun of politics, the interest of it.
43:48We have another Conservative gain.
43:51The Conservatives taking real chunks out of the Labour heartland.
43:55How are you?
43:57Bishop Auckland has been Labour since 1935.
44:02Well, look, it's gone Conservative.
44:06Johnson, Alexander Boris de Feffel, commonly known as Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party
44:12candidate.
44:1325,000...
44:15Over the past decade, I've seen politicians who have not paid the penalty for getting things
44:21wrong.
44:22Not paid a political penalty.
44:24One was Donald Trump.
44:25And Boris Johnson.
44:27You know, I mean, people knew he was a bit of a chancer, but for a while it didn't seem
44:32to matter.
44:33The character overcame that.
44:35It is 6.13 in the morning.
44:37The Conservatives have won the general election with a hefty majority of 80 seats.
44:43That is our current calculation.
44:46The last time the Tories had a majority of anything like this was when Margaret Thatcher
44:50was re-elected in 1987.
44:54Thanks very much.
44:55Thanks for coming.
44:56I really appreciate it.
44:57Thanks very much.
44:59Thanks for coming.
45:00Thanks for coming.
45:00My little dog has come to me.
45:02Teasel.
45:02What's the name of your Teasel?
45:04Teasel.
45:04Teasel.
45:06Teasel.
45:06Teasel.
45:07There we go.
45:09There we go.
45:10There we go.
45:10There we go.
45:11There has been a historic victory for a man who's wanted the job so long.
45:18He's an extremely divisive and controversial figure.
45:21But he's also spent a career of doing things that people have told him were impossible.
45:27He's told it would be impossible to turn London blue.
45:30And then he won the mayoralty twice.
45:32Then he was, of course, told that you can't win the EU referendum.
45:35And then, as it's Brexit's main cheerleader, he did.
45:39And then told, you can never turn places like Bishop Auckland or Darlington or Warrington blue.
45:45And then look at what has happened tonight.
45:55The election result was absolutely wonderful.
45:59There was just this real sense that we had a proper mandate.
46:05This wasn't just a mandate from the Conservative Party.
46:07This was a mandate from the people.
46:11He won the leadership because he wanted to be Prime Minister.
46:15He won the election because he wanted to prove he could.
46:18And after that, I'm not sure what he really wanted to do.
46:25It was incredibly exciting.
46:28There wasn't a cloud on the political horizon.
46:30You know, we had a big majority.
46:32We could get Brexit done.
46:34We had five years to sort out all sorts of problems.
46:37It was going to be great.
46:41Then it wasn't.
46:43There was no doubt.
46:44Then it was.
47:09Just peace.
47:10To be continued...
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