Newsnight tickled viewers final night time when it took a pop at Boris Johnson on a day wherein a record-breaking variety of ministers resigned.
Forward of hypothesis as we speak the prime minister is reluctantly quitting as Tory chief after a gentle trickle of resignations in his authorities turned a torrent, the BBC got here up with a intelligent method to spotlight the mass exodus.
With a spot of Bittersweet Symphony, after all.
In a transfer that has acquired punters calling for Newsnight to land the Bafta for finest comedy, credit rolled on the finish of Wednesday night time’s programme with an inventory of the 43 ministers that had stop up to date the poor credit editor had put the package deal collectively.
It may possibly’t have been a simple job as a lot more stop within the time between rendering the clip and sending it to air, but it surely was nonetheless a prolonged checklist that ended with the phrases: ‘Boris Johnson – Prime Minister ?’
If solely they knew…
In a hauntingly stunning backing, if we do say so ourselves, London Grammar’s stay model of The Verve’s basic hit performed with a backdrop of Mr Johnson in black and white because the names rolled throughout his unhappy little expression.
Host Kirsty Wark was joined on the Newsnight sofa by Monetary Instances’ Stephen Bush, Mr Johnson’s biographer Sonia Purnell, and Cash Saving Skilled Martin Lewis, as she closed the episode.
Wark stated: ‘On the night the resignations from the Johnson Authorities threaten to turn out to be a flood, we go away you with the names of the primary 43 of them. As Nick simply stated there are already extra since we got here on air.
‘See you tomorrow to search out out who they're, if there are extra to return. Goodnight.’
Properly, expensive reader, there have been certainly extra and this morning the depend had surpassed the 50 mark, with elevated stress for Mr Johnson to resign.
Mr Johnson is because of ‘stop as we speak’ with reviews that a resignation letter has already been drafted and an announcement is predicted inside hours in entrance of 10 Downing Avenue.
The PM confronted a wave of recent resignations this morning, together with the departure of Michelle Donelan as schooling secretary after lower than 48 hours within the position.
It's understood Mr Johnson will plough on with the highest job till a brand new celebration chief is chosen, anticipated to be by the point of the Conservative Social gathering convention in October.
The dual resignations of Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak on Tuesday led to the domino impact of exits which led to the scenario the federal government finds itself in as we speak.
Following Mr Johnson’s resignation, the Conservative Social gathering will as soon as once more start the seek for a brand new chief.
Reacting to the bombshell information this morning, Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer blasted the ‘lies, scandal and fraud on an industrial scale’ seen throughout Mr Johnson’s time in workplace.
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