Andrew Neil will make a return to television for a Channel 4 documentary on the future of Boris Johnson’s premiership.
The hour-long programme, titled ‘Boris Johnson: Has He Run Out of Road?’, will air on Channel 4 and All 4 on January 30 at 7pm.
Neil, 72, left GB News after less than a year after falling out with senior executives over its “anti-woke” editorial stance and later admitting the experience had pushed him “close to a breakdown”.
His new Channel 4 film will explore the crisis facing the prime minister following repeated allegations of parties held in Downing Street during lockdown.
Mr Johnson has seen his poll lead slip behind Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer and faced repeated calls to resign from his own MPs.
Among the people due to feature in the documentary are former Brexit minister Lord Frost, Conservative MP for Ashfield Lee Anderson and David Davis, the former minister and Tory grandee who last week urged Mr Johnson to stand aside, telling him in the Commons: “In the name of God, go”.
Mr Neil said the Partygate scandal was “the biggest leadership crisis in three decades and we have a ringside seat”.
Documentary director Simon Gilchrist said it had been a “tremendous privilege” to follow Mr Neil “as he covers the most extraordinary and dynamic political story of our times”.
Mr Neil stepped down as the chairman and host of a prime-time show on GB News last year.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Mr Neil said he had walked away from a £4 million contract but added continuing with the channel “would have killed me”.
He had worked with Mr Johnson on The Spectator magazine when he was appointed chairman in 2004 while Mr Johnson was the editor.
Louisa Compton, Channel 4’s head of news, said: “With Boris Johnson’s future as UK Prime Minister seemingly hanging on a knife edge, who better to examine how we got here and what could happen next than Britain’s leading political journalist, Andrew Neil?
“This timely film underlies the channel’s commitment to producing distinctive, thought-provoking and outstanding journalism.”
