finished at home? - ring before bath time is finished at home?- ring before bath time is finished at home? the other side of chris finished at home? the other side of chris mason s - finished at home? the other side of chris mason s life. i so what was it like standing in downing streetjust before borisjohnson came to the podium? you could see, like all the staffers and you could see his few remaining supportive mps. they were all sort of hugging each other, looking. what was it like? yeah, and his wife and their daughter in a little sling thing. you just get a sense in those moments of the kind of human and then the political and then the constitutional, because they re all wrapped up in the same thing. and, you know, borisjohnson coming out to the podium, and, you know, a man who s crushed a man who s gone from winning a colossal majority less than three years ago to being out on his ear. and felt a little bit defensive about it, as we ll hear now. in the last few days,
died in hospital in spain, he was 79. nearly four decades of power, marred by allegations of nepotism and corruption, his family enormously wealthy. at 10pm, jane hill will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello. it s adam in the studio. emma here. and it s chris. chris, i m looking at your phone to see if someone s going to phone with, like, a historic message as we re recording this podcast. because ijust, i assume that just what happens to you all the time now. you got to deliver for newscast as well. yeah. no, i m afraid. exactly. nothing other than are you going to ring before bath time is finished at home? 0h, mikejust managed to do that once we finished the other side of chris mason s life. so what was it like standing in downing streetjust before borisjohnson came to the podium? you could see all the staffers and you could see his few remaining supportive mps. they were all sort of hugging each other, looking. wha
as he describes it, to his mandate, that election win of a few years back. and there wasn t a big oh, gosh, i did get lots wrong and i kind of get it. i mean, he gets the political reality that he s getting turfed out got it eventually. but there wasn t any reflections on what his critics see as the colossal mistakes he s made that has transformed his premiership from being this moment of this guy who could walk on water at westminster, having crushed labour to their biggest defeat since 1935, to getting thrown out two and a bit years later. were you surprised, though? because in a way you could say, well, then he s been pretty consistent in thatjust resolute self belief, perhaps bunker mentality of actually reading the room and what else is going on in the country and how people are actually feeling. well, i was going to say it was one last reminder, although maybe it wasn t the last. there ll be a few more still to go over the next few months before he actually finally moves out
and i kind of get it. i mean, he gets the political reality that he s getting turfed out. got it eventually. but there wasn t any reflections on what his critics see as the colossal mistakes he s made that has transformed his premiership from being this moment of this guy who could walk on water at westminster, having crushed labour to their biggest defeat since 1935, to getting thrown out two and a bit years later. were you surprised, though, because in a way you could say, well, then he s been pretty consistent in thatjust resolute, self belief, perhaps bunker mentality of actually reading the room and what else is going on in the country and how people are actually feeling. well, i was going to say it was one last reminder, although maybe it wasn t the last. there ll be a few more still to go over the next few months before he actually finally moves out of downing street. that borisjohnson doesn t play by the rules. i mean, it s such a cliche to even say it. it s like, that was not