Boris Johnson

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Less than three years after winning a landslide victory, the UK’s Conservative party Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned. It follows a series of political scandals, election defeats and his own party’s loss of trust and confidence in his leadership. During his time in office, Johnson had to deal with a number of unexpected global situations: a pandemic, the economic fallout of war in Ukraine and the ongoing cost of living crisis. But it was questions about his character that brought him down and scandals such as ‘Partygate’ where he attended group gatherings at 10 Downing Street, during lockdowns. Two journalists in Belgium and France discuss Boris Johnson’s reputation abroad and the reaction of European leaders with host James Reynolds.

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0:22.0	Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service
0:24.6	and this is BBC Earth Conversations on Boris Johnson.
0:31.2	After a dramatic and unprecedented 48-hour period
0:35.8	when more than 50 members of his own government resigned,
0:39.9	the UK's Prime Minister says that he is stepping down
0:43.1	after losing the confidence of members of Parliament
0:45.9	and many of their constituents.
0:47.8	I've supported Mr Johnson through thick and thin, through Brexit,
0:52.3	through the pandemic, through party gate, you name it, I've supported him.
0:57.2	But unfortunately I have had to say enough is enough.
1:03.1	When Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019,
1:06.8	it was because his predecessor Theresa May couldn't reach an acceptable deal
1:11.4	on Brexit, the UK's decision to withdraw from the European Union.
1:16.2	After May's resignation, conservative party members,
1:19.0	not the public, voted Boris Johnson into power
1:22.0	when he called a general election five months later,
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