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To keep slavishly supporting somebody who. .. we've had several examples of the public feeling that maybe this sort of... you know, whatever you think of boris, he'd sort of been elected — you know, that they had started to lose faith and trust. 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 bac...

Boris Johnson has finally quit the Tory leadership after an onslaught of ministerial resignations and calls for him to go from senior

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...

And you probably need a culture where people are much more willing to turn around and say, "well, boris — or prime minister — is that actually true?" and what's happened now is that people have been going out and basically telling lies on behalf of the prime minister, having already done so in previous episodes over the last few months. and you would have thought that by now, there would be an element of revolt. and it will be interesting to see, when the diaries and memoirs are written, how much revolt there was to being willing to go out on the today programme or newsnight or whatever an...

So... and i think the fact that most papers, and i know we're probably going to talk about the daily mail, you know, since being elected with such a huge majority less than three years ago, the right—wing papers, as we would call them, the right of centre — you know, the telegraph, where boris obviously was a very highly paid columnist for a long time, the mail — all of those papers, were all so, so positive about boris — and the sun, actually — until i think there's been such a drip of stories, again, following the news, that it's been quite difficult for them to keep slavishly supp...