{"id":5525,"date":"2026-07-07T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/boris-v-dave-the-history-of-their-rivalry-bbc-newsnight\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:44:19","slug":"boris-v-dave-the-history-of-their-rivalry-bbc-newsnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/boris-v-dave-the-history-of-their-rivalry-bbc-newsnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris v Dave: The history of their rivalry &#8211; BBC Newsnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qq6ycnTgWNM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The EU referendum campaign at times seemed like a personal battle between David Cameron and Boris Johnson. Their rivalry has history. For Newsnight, Michael Cockerell looks at the relationship between the two men &#8211; and how it influenced the contest. (N.B. This aired on the programme on 22 June 2016)<\/p>\n<p>Newsnight is the BBC&#8217;s flagship news and current affairs TV programme &#8211; with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews. <\/p>\n<p>YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BBCNewsnight<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNewsnight<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsnight<br \/>\nSnapchat: https:\/\/www.snapchat.com\/add\/bbcnewsnight<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qq6ycnTgWNM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU referendum campaign at times seemed like a personal battle between David Cameron and Boris Johnson. Their rivalry has history. For Newsnight, Michael Cockerell looks at the relationship between the two men &#8211; and how it influenced the contest. (N.B. This aired on the programme on 22 June 2016) Newsnight is the BBC&#8217;s flagship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150854,"featured_media":5526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,10890,10889,2493,2484,10892,10899,10893,10896,642,2497,995,10895,725,10891,368,4931,1862,10894,10898,10897,894],"class_list":["post-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bojo","tag-boris","tag-boris-johnson","tag-brexit","tag-cameron","tag-conservative-party","tag-david-cameron","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-interview","tag-leave","tag-london","tag-mayor","tag-news","tag-newsnight","tag-politics","tag-prime-minister","tag-tories","tag-tory","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}