Matt Chorley interviews Boris Johnson

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today, hear Matt Chorley’s interview with Boris Johnson on his 5 Live show. They discuss his exit from Downing Street, whether Brexit helped the Covid vaccination programme and his chances of becoming PM again. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Alex Forsyth. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Ruchira Sharma. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, it's Alex here.
0:06.0	On this episode of newscast, we're going to bring you Matt Chorley's full interview
0:09.8	with Boris Johnson, which was on his five live show on Tuesday afternoon.
0:14.1	They sat down for a live half an hour interview and I've just had a listen to it.
0:19.3	And Matt went toe to toe with the former Prime Minister on-to-to-to-to-to-to-the-to-hisate on Party Gate.
0:25.8	There was a little bit of humour in there, and there was quite a lot of substance as well.
0:30.7	There's going to be a second episode of newscast coming on Tuesday evening
0:33.8	where I'm going to talk to Matt about that interview and we'll also look at the
0:38.1	latest round of voting in the Tory leadership race.
0:41.1	Newscast. Newscast. Newscast.
0:43.0	Newscast from the BBC.
0:44.0	My guest this afternoon needs no introduction.
0:52.0	Everyone knows who he is and has a view on him.
0:54.8	He is the hero who delivered Brexit,
0:57.2	or the villain who delivered Brexit.
0:59.2	He is the hero delivered the COVID vaccine,
1:01.5	all the villain who partied whatever else was locked down.
1:04.4	He broke election records when he won in 2019 and broke more records when 62 of his own ministers
1:09.9	resigned, forcing them from office less than three years later and now he has
1:13.9	released a book called Unleished in which amongst many many other things he becomes
1:18.8	possibly the first prime minister we will be memoir to use the word chundered.
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