THE RISE AND FALL
OF BORIS JOHNSON
CHANNEL FOUR, 2024

Series Director

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         THE TIMES​

No politician has had a bigger impact on Britain during this century than Boris Johnson and this revealing four-part series offers fresh insights into the former prime minister’s life and career. There are interviews with the people closest to him, both friends and enemies and it also draws on a wealth of unseen archive footage.

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                                                                   THE GUARDIAN

What must it be like to live a life in which you are just that bit too intelligent, that bit too self-aware, to let the mask eat the face entirely and find some peace? These are questions to ponder … as the detritus of people and country destroyed by Johnson piles up around him. The documentary makes its way meticulously through his lies and machinations as a journalist, a politician and a man.

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                   THE TELEGRAPH​

To the extent that Johnson is damaged – his father hit his beloved mother; Eton gifted him that British private school double whammy of immense self-belief coupled with withering insecurity – the programme showed where the damage was done.​

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This four-part Channel 4 documentary traces Boris Johnson’s journey from privileged but troubled childhood through his meteoric political rise — from journalist, London Mayor, Brexit figurehead to Prime Minister — exposing how his ambition, scandals and personal contradictions shaped both his public appeal and political downfall. Against a backdrop of rarely seen archive footage and interviews with both allies and adversaries, it lays bare the forces behind “Partygate,” pandemic controversies, betrayal and the loss of public trust that ultimately led to his resignation.​​

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72 Films

Executive Producers: Mark Raphael, David Glover

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