When Boris Met Dave

When Boris Met Dave is a 2009 docudrama which investigates the shared past of David Cameron and Boris Johnson who, at the time of broadcast, were two of Britain's most influential Conservative Party politicians – Cameron as Conservative leader and Johnson as Mayor of London. The film features interviews with people who knew Cameron and Johnson both at Eton College and Oxford where they were both members of the Bullingdon Club.^[1] The programme also looks at Johnson's campaign to become president of the Oxford Union and dramatises some of the other key events of their student days. The film was first broadcast on More4 on 7 October 2009 and was later repeated on Channel 4.

Cast

• Anthony Head – narrator
• Christian Brassington – Boris Johnson
• Jonny Sweet – David Cameron
• Christopher Leveaux – James Delingpole

Interviews

Interviews were conducted with numerous individuals including Oxford alumni who attended the university with Cameron and Johnson and contemporary political commentators. The list includes;

• Michael Cockerell
• Toby Young
• James Delingpole
• Rachel Johnson
• Lloyd Evans
• Frank Luntz (US pollster)
• James Hanning (Cameron biographer)
• Frances Elliot (Cameron biographer)
• Andrew Gimson (Johnson biographer)
• Nick Fraser (author of The Importance of Being Eton)

See also

• Miliband of Brothers

References

1. "Our Boys from the Bullingdon: The early years of David Cameron and Boris Johnson". The Daily Mail. 26 September 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2009.

External links

• When Boris Met Dave at Channel4.com
• When Boris Met Dave at the Internet Movie Database