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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. he does not stand for many of the things that they believe in, particularly when it comes to issues such as family values, that h...

And i think what seems to have happened — to me — is that over the past months or so, the press has probably been as a whole... i hate to say "the press", but manyjournalists have probably been too supine, whereas actually they are now doing theirjob at least, and you would hope they would do that of prime ministers and politicians of all stripes rather than just the ones that they don't particularly like. and actually, now, we have a prime minister that they are holding, or trying to hold, to account. and i should say that line that you allude to, keir starmer asked the prime minister abo...

I don't really buy the idea i that this has been some sort of gradual evolution, - where it's dawned on all these newspapers that the qualities that michael outlined there, i negative qualities associated with the prime minister, - actually make him unfit for their support. - i'm not sure... i mean, i give the sun. great credit, obviously, for reporting the story- a little under a week ago, but i'm not sure they would i have necessarily anticipated it would lead to his downfall, his likely downfall, - in less than a week. the thing that has done i that is that borisjohnson was already in the l...

Ros, as well today, and from last night as well, when both sunak and javid used twitter to release their resignation statements, that they also realise the power of social media and, obviously, the broadcast and the print media. i mean, it's been really interesting, particularly a story like this. i mean, we were talking earlier to say, you know, these are the kinds of days when it's really hard not to want to be in the newsroom, not to want to sort of be following every twist and turn, cos it is one of the biggest political stories we've had for a long time, particularly about the prime minis...

Actually send people out on the morning rounds saying things that weren't true. and i think that's why the frustration�*s come so much. it's not actually over what pincher did. it's over how the reaction was the same. but here's the question. and, michael and joey, i'd like to put this to you — maybe michael first. does the system need to change? or are the problems thatjames is describing, where untruths are being briefed to the press, perhaps that is a problem specific to the current operation in number 10? well, i mean, i'm not, you know, involved in reporting the news on a day—to—d...