Channel 4’s planned Partygate drama will, the broadcaster has announced, feature Boris Johnson in “voice only”. He will, in other words, be heard, but not seen. It is an editorial decision that asks a whole lot of tantalising questions.
Will it be some sort of gripping arthouse piece, set entirely inside the mind of a prime minister as he moves around his own house and garden, unwittingly attending parties he doesn’t realise are happening?
Or maybe it’s a children’s fairytale, where a man who pretends to be unable to see what’s happening right in front of him finds, all of a sudden, that nobody can see him either?
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