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London - There won't be many who tuned into Have I Got News For You, BBC's flagship news satire show, on the evening of April 24, 1998, that could possibly have predicted one bumbling upper-class panellist would one day be the new prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

On the show, Boris Johnson was grilled over a leaked recording of a phone call between himself and Darius Guppy, a schoolfriend convicted for fraud.