Boris will star in a Partygate drama. And guess what, he’s phoning it in

This will be the first lockdown drama since the No 10 parties came to light. It stars the former PM in ‘voice only’. What could possibly go wrong, asks Tom Peck

Boris Johnson at a lockdown gathering in 10 Downing Street (PA)

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?