Boris Johnson’s Departure: Media In Overdrive, TV Schedules Ripped Up & Questions Over Future Of BBC & Channel 4 — Analysis
07.07.2022 - 13:21
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After a seismic 36 hours during which British politics has been rocked, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is stepping down and the British media is in overdrive speculating on what happens next. In the UK broadcasting world, questions will soon be raised about a future that will almost certainly have a different Culture Secretary than current incumbent Nadine Dorries.
Following the news Johnson is resigning, schedules are being uprooted as news teams provide minute-by-minute reports on the fast-moving events and offer what insight they can. The UK’s major TV and radio stations have already been completely dominated for the past 36 hours with wall-to-wall coverage of the chaos, which was triggered by the resignations of Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid in response to the Chris Pincher scandal. That incident, the latest of many, saw Johnson sew confusion over whether he knew of sexual assault allegations made against Deputy Chief Whip Pincher, having recently promoted him.
Another 50+ resignations followed before word came this morning that Johnson will step down, although he plans to stay on until the Conservative Party Conference in October. Question marks are already being raised over how he will be able to keep a cabinet together in a caretaker capacity, with Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeting that the “notion of Boris Johnson staying on as PM until autumn seems far from ideal, and surely not sustainable?” Credible Conservative commentators have noted that his stock has fallen so low that few will want to associate with him, making his task of finding replacements even harder.
As Deadline writes this piece, BBC News specials have replaced regular programming on major linear channels BBC One and
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