
60 minutes
2/8/2003
Last December's "Cheriegate" affair did little to abate the rampant public cynicism reserved for politicians - a mistrust evidenced in the turnout at the 2001 general election, which was the lowest for more than 80 years. In this documentary, Michael Cockerell talks to figures including Edwina Currie, Max Clifford, Geoffrey Robinson and Neil Hamilton in an effort to see if spin, sleaze and ministerial failure is to blame, or whether the media's sneering political coverage is most at fault.

Michael Cockerell
as Self - Narrator
Mohamed Al-Fayed
as Self

Peter Bazalgette
as Self
Tim Bell
as Self

Tony Benn
as Self

Cherie Blair
as Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair
as Self (archive footage)

Ken Clarke
as Self

Edwina Currie
as Self

Bernie Ecclestone
as Self (archive footage)
Ian Greer
as Self

Neil Hamilton
as Self

Max Hastings
as Self

Michael Heseltine
as Self

John Humphrys
as Self

Oona King
as Self

Kelvin MacKenzie
as Self

John Major
as Self (archive footage)

Peter Mandelson
as Self (archive footage)
Deborah Mattinson
as Self

Piers Morgan
as Self

David Morrissey
as Self

Michael Portillo
as Self
Geoffrey Robinson
as Self

Clare Short
as Self

Nicholas Soames
as Self

Max Clifford
as Self
Christine Hamilton
as Self