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2009 television film

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When Boris Met Dave is a docudrama of 2009 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. Johnson went on to become the Conservative leader as well; with Cameron serving as Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016 and Johnson from 2019 to 2022. 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. It recreates the 1987 Bullingdon Club photograph.

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 (American pollster)
James Hanning (Cameron biographer)
Francis Elliott (Cameron biographer)
Andrew Gimson (Johnson biographer)
Nick Fraser (author of The Importance of Being Eton)

References

"When Boris met Dave: from Bullingdon to Brexit – in pictures". The Guardian. 22 February 2016. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
"When Boris Johnson met Dave Cameron". the Guardian. 26 September 2009. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
"WHEN BORIS MET DAVE; Channel 4, tonight, 8pm. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 6 January 2023.

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Boris Johnson

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2019–2022)
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Leader of the Conservative Party (2019–2022)
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Books

By Johnson	Friends, Voters, Countrymen (2002) Seventy-Two Virgins (2004) The Dream of Rome (2006) The Churchill Factor (2014) Unleashed (2024)
About Johnson	Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson (2006) Boris v. Ken (2008)

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Cultural depictions	Headcases (2008) When Boris Met Dave (2009) Newzoids (2015–2016) South Park (2016) Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) "Vossi Bop" (2019) "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt" (2020) "Can't Stop Christmas" (2020) Spitting Image (2020–2021) This England (2022) DSP (2022) Partygate (2023)