TV review: What does Carrie see in Boris Johnson? The answer isn't obvious in This England

Boris is played, brilliantly, by Kenneth Branagh — his forced jollity every time he comes into contact with someone outside Boris’s inner circle is touchingly sad. He got the big job, but it didn’t make him happy
TV review: What does Carrie see in Boris Johnson? The answer isn't obvious in This England

Kenneth Branagh presents a sympathetic - and repugnant - Boris Johnson in This England.

This England (Sky Atlantic and NOW TV app) begs the question — what does Carrie Symonds see in Boris Johnson?

There must be something because she’s Carrie Johnson now, but the answer isn’t obvious in this six-part dramatisation of Boris’s time in Number 10 Downing Street.

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