''When Boris Met Dave'' is a

docudrama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television show, television and feature film, film, which features Drama (film and television), dramatized Historical reenactment, re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of docu ...

of 2009 which investigates the shared past of

David Cameron David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the first coalition government in the UK s ...

and

Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He wa ...

who, at the time of broadcast, were two of Britain's most influential Conservative Party politicians – Cameron as Conservative leader and Johnson as

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. 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

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and

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, 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

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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

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Cast

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– narrator * Christian Brassington – Boris Johnson * Jonny Sweet – David Cameron * Christopher Leveaux –

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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 *

* 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'')

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''When Boris Met Dave''
at Channel4.com * British documentary television films Channel 4 original programming 2009 television films 2009 films 2009 in British politics Cultural depictions of David Cameron Cultural depictions of Boris Johnson 2009 in British television Works about prime ministers of the United Kingdom 2000s British films {{UK-tv-prog-stub

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