Don’t be misled by their Bullingdon days: Boris and Dave are masters of re-invention
Last night, More4 broadcast a 90-minute drama-doc called When Boris Met Dave that I helped to make. It documents their Eton and Oxford years and I hope they saw it — or, at least, recorded it on Sky Plus — because the impression given in the press is that it was a spiteful hatchet job designed to cause them maximum discomfort. In fact, it was nothing of the kind. On the contrary, when we handed the film in to Channel 4 I was worried they’d think it was a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Conservative party.
The film was actually a fairly straightforward attempt to find out a bit more about the two most prominent Conservative politicians of our era. How did Boris and Dave manage to overcome the electoral handicap of being toffs? And what is the source of the rivalry between them? The film contends that you can discover the answers to both of these questions by examining their early years.
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