How will history judge Boris Johnson?

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Christopher Hope is taking a well deserved break this week, so as a special treat to Chopper's Politics listeners we're bringing you a panel discussion from a recent Telegraph event.

And for the first Telegraph event for some time, Chopper thought he'd tackle quite a meaty topic, and so the subject of the day was How Will History Judge Boris Johnson? To answer that question he was joined by a group of people who know the Prime Minister best.

Andrew Gimson, the author of the celebrated biography of Boris Johnson, Boris: the Making of the Prime Minister. Sir Anthony Seldon, biographer of 10 Downing Street, and is writing a book out looking at Johnson at No. 10 out next year. Lucy Fisher, our former deputy political editor, now at Times Radio, as the chief political commentator. And Andrew Bridgen, the Tory MP for North West Leicestershire.

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0:37.0	I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor for Politics,
0:41.0	coming to you for my normal Barstrel in the Red Lion pub.
0:44.4	But this week on the podcast as MPs are away for their parliamentary recess,
0:48.8	I'm also on a short break.
0:50.2	So I thought I'd bring you a recent treat that I took part with telegraph subscribers,
0:55.0	our first in-person event for two years.
0:58.0	And as we were so excited to be back with listeners again, we thought we'd get our teeth stuck into a difficult topic.
1:05.5	The event was titled, How Old History, Judge Boris Johnson?
1:10.6	A good question to ask you might think, because we are halfway through what could be Boris Johnson's first or last term as Prime Minister.
1:19.0	And to answer that question I was joined by a panel of people who know the Prime Minister best.
1:24.0	First up we had Andrew Jimson, the author of a celebrated biography of Boris Johnson,
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