The Resistible Rise of Boris Johnson

I'm rather gratified that finally a presenter has decided to call out Alexander 'Boris the Animal' Johnson, not on his fatuous classical allusions, but on the rather more important topic of his integrity.  Pressed with sufficient vigour, Johnson floundered, in a manner I have rarely seen in a top-level politician since Jeremy Paxman destroyed William Hague in a pre-general election interview (in a series with the three main leaders) in 2001.
Eddie Mair was the softly spoken assassin who refused to be cowed or dazzled.  Speaking with reference to  tomorrow's BBC2 documentary Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise (a pun on Bertolt Brecht's Hitler allegory, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui?  I hope, as I am referring to this programme, my title escape's Godwin's Law), a TV show in which Johnson is a willing participant (despite his denials), Mair deftly pressed and pressed until Johnson made himself look like a man with a lot to hide, none of it pleasant and, unlike most presenters, Mair summed up with a personal reflection of the man sitting across from him: "You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you?"  Cutting, this sentence has the potential to frame Johnson's political future permanently.  Suddenly, being prime minister (however 'accidental', a phraseology the British often used to apply to the acquisition of their empire) seems a long way off.