More than any other British politician, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was the creation of the media, and it appears that media is now resolved to take him down. Media scholar Dan Hind joins us for a wide-ranging assessment of the dynamics behind the Prime Minister's rapid collapse in the polls, the function of the BBC, the media's role in the 2019 General Election, and his plan for a new and democratised model of public broadcasting.
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