The lies and fall of Boris Johnson
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:06.2 | Today, as Boris Johnson's time as Prime Minister, |
| 0:10.7 | ends in disarray and disgrace, |
| 0:13.1 | we look back on how it was always going to end this way. |
| 0:29.1 | Good afternoon, everybody. |
| 0:32.1 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:34.1 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:37.1 | It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party |
| 0:42.1 | that there should be a new leader of that party |
| 0:45.1 | and therefore a new Prime Minister. |
| 0:47.1 | And I agree with you. |
| 0:48.1 | Anyone who is expecting a sort of voice-cracking, |
| 0:51.1 | tearful to resumé style departure will have been disappointed. |
| 0:56.1 | He was absolutely as bullish and confident and Boris like as he's always been. |
| 1:03.1 | So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us. |
| 1:08.1 | I think it's one of those moments where you thought, |
| 1:10.1 | man really have a kind of interior life. |
| 1:12.1 | A lot of people say there really isn't much and he's quite hollow on the inside. |
| 1:16.1 | And this was oddly impersonal in that respect. |
| 1:19.1 | It was just another performance. |
| 1:22.1 | And in the last few days I've tried to persuade my colleagues |
| 1:25.1 | that it would be eccentric to change governments when we're delivering so much. |
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