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Mrjohnson�*s the best man to lead britain." so we've been getting different messages from the mail across the last few days. but more broadly, michael crick, there does appear to have been an evolution in the position of the right—of—centre press. how do you explain that? well, it's inevitable. i mean, the right—of—centre press took the view that "we've got to do everything we can to get borisjohnson elected, or re—elected," three years ago at the general election. and i think, gradually, they've realised that he doesn't stand for... he's not doing the conservative brand any good. ...

What i think is different is what we've seen in terms of managing the country — you know, how, actually, he has just told lies to the electorate. and that's where you get a problem because... and this is... i think the mail is where it's really interesting, because when a paper diverges so much from its readership, then you get something which we've had in the last three days, which is the front page of the mail on sunday completely different from the, you know, "actually, boris is the best man to lead britain", and then today, which is the "greased piglet" — "we're trying to hedge our bet...

The daily express stayed on side. it said the resignation of rishi sunak was a potential for tax cuts. the front page of the mail today talks about mrjohnson as the greased piglet. and a mail editorial on monday said, "well, mrjohnson's the best man to lead britain." so we've been getting different messages from the mail across the last few days. but more broadly, michael crick, there does appear to have been an evolution in the position of the right—of—centre press. how do you explain that? well, it's inevitable. i mean, the right—of—centre press took the view that "we've got to do ev...

Something which we've had in the last three days, which is the front page of the mail on sunday completely different from the, you know, "actually, boris is the best man to lead britain", and then today, which is the "greased piglet" — "we're trying to hedge our bets." and i should say that number 10 and mrjohnson have always denied lying, though they do accept that on several matters, they have said things which weren't true and then have corrected that. we're going to talk about the relationship between the number 10 press operation and the press in a moment with james ball, who's going to...

They were booing him at thejubilee celebrations. so it becomes a story. by the way, it was the bbc and the sun, wasn't it? i think ione wells, as well as the sun... you're quite right. my colleague ione wells followed up with the original sun story. she broke a further story three or so days later. i'm sure the newspapers you mentioned would push back at the idea they're slavishly covering the prime minister in one way or another, but let's quickly run down how they've covered the events of the last 2a hours. the mail on sunday... sorry, if we go back to sunday, the mail on sunday ran a critic...