Behind the scenes of Brexit: Theresa May’s disastrous 2017 election campaign

As Theresa May might have reflected as she left Number 10 for the last time, snap elections are risky. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
Mrs May went into the 2017 campaign confident of a big win and came out without a majority. For some insight into what went wrong, we met Steve Back, the photographer who had exclusive behind the scenes access to her election team.
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[@aperson22222]

Thanks, I was hoping for a recap episode before the next season of Brexit starts.

[@stocktonjoans]

a grown woman talking about "boy jobs and girl jobs" is 100% pure cringe

[@stocktonjoans]

@D M if "girl jobs" and "boy jobs" are your reality, your reality is outdated

[@hazelsomaya3287]

@D M hear! hear !!

[@Cabronosidad]

It's arguable just when she appeared at her most pathetic. Was it when she offered to leave if they would only vote for her "deal"? Or that sphyncter-tighteningly embarrassing resignation speech? Was it that quavering voice saying "strong and stable" over and over again? Or the footage of her dancing? The whole country should go into trauma therapy after what it has endured.

[@hazelsomaya3287]

Put yourself in her shoes, empathize, and go through catharsis, then judge with your conscience honestly and be not the one to cast the ''first stone'', analyse the role of other politicians from ruling tories/labour/liberals from commons and lords, observe the worst kind of obstructionism/pomposity in the history of Westminster and shed a tear for your country, if not for Theressa May.

[@herbalicious4205]

​@@hazelsomaya3287 No empathy for someone whose voting record is responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths. Good riddance to the morally bankrupt worst PM in history.

[@user-cr4sv4kw1b]

@@hazelsomaya3287 Naa! You were absent; Hazel.

[@jameswhiteley6843]

The ultimate "Yes girl".

[@jameswhiteley6843]

N Xarigow you lose all credibility when you accuse people you disagree with as being a “Russian troll”.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

It's been a few days and I was already forgetting just how awkward and weird and nervous looking she was. A very strange woman..

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@D M Oh she is peaceful yes. I'm just going on her posture, and mainly her weakness as PM. I would of said Merkel was stronger than May but lately with the shakes, and poor election results, her strong days are well and truly over.

[@hazelsomaya3287]

@D M remark against Merkel was uncalled for, but agree with your assessment of TM, and i am sure posteriority will remember her services to UK, despite badmouthing/vicious propaganda unleashed against her by vested interests. Everything boils down to loaves and fishes of office ultimately, in politics.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@Diana Mitford She would meow at him and he would back

[@forza223bowe5]

Weird PM, just in for the money

[@moow950]

Watch Strange Things !!!

[@thomasshaw6936]

Is there a longer version of this?

[@tombowen826]

Amazing that senior Tories did not have the sense to recognise her weak character traits and lack of communication skills before handing her the PM job unopposed. Certainly the electorate recognised her deficiencies.

[@davidbrown-rk1ym]

remain MPs voted for her

[@tombowen826]

What, knowing that her incompetence would eventually cause large numbers of them to lose their seats and see the Tories in opposition for a decade at least? Madness!

[@Supernova-mp5uh]

Because after the referendum no one had the guts to take responsibility and lead the country in delivering Brexit. So they let her run unopposed, Andrea Leadsom was completely unfit to Downing Street and ruined herself with her comments

[@tombowen826]

Supernova Boris was ready to enter the fray but was backstabbed by Gove causing him to pull out.

[@Supernova-mp5uh]

@@tombowen826 he could have stood against Gove and everyone else, including May. He just ran away, he didn't even expect to win the referendum

[@frankieleung2215]

Otto Von Bismarck: Law making is like making sausages. If you see how they are made, you would not want to eat it. Same for politics.

[@guppy0112]

That's brilliant 🤣🤣🤣 very well put! I'll remember that one....

[@user-cr4sv4kw1b]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 9 months later,I came across this comment. Now I'm having stomach ache! Frankie, it's your fault! 🤣🤣🤣.

[@ghostdog4330]

Still, at least we have that conference to look back on where bits were falling off the stage, the p45, and her broken voice. Comedy gold! Loved every minute of that. :P

[@jaapvanderplas8175]

Theresa May has wasted 3 years. What are the costs for the taxpayer.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Well, at least she gave us some good memes! 😀

[@Ladynipchick2]

Hi, the Explainer Series link isn't working!!

[@herbalicious4205]

Worst or 2nd worst PM in history alongside Cameron. Her time in office has felt like living in a hostage situation.

[@wickedtribeART]

Rather self-serving that this comes up as she leaves... Who's being manipulated here?

[@alancadwallender]

She pursued Brexit for everybody except the 17.4million who voted for it.

[@calorus]

Yeah. The other 48 million of us.

[@Flugzeug101]

@@calorus very good point..

[@alancadwallender]

@@calorus A typically stupid argument from a typically stupid Remainer. How many of those 48 million were eligible to vote? In case you hadn't noticed, babies, infants, schoolchildren, in fact nobody under the age of 18 has the right to vote. And what makes you think, in your supreme arrogance, that even in some fantasy land were they could vote, they would all have voted to Remain? Again in case you hadn't noticed, THE MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO COULD BE BOTHERED TO VOTE, VOTED LEAVE. It's what's known as DEMOCRACY - the majority vote WINS.

[@RaRa-eu9mw]

@@alancadwallender How can we know how people would vote today? Polling gives us an idea. All of the polls have remain winning substantially now, as brexiteers have generally come to accept their mistake, or have died off.

[@alancadwallender]

@@RaRa-eu9mw The supreme arrogance of you Remainers is quite staggering. Demanding vote after vote until you get the result you want is dictatorship, which is probably why you love the EU so much, as the EU also refuses to accept democratic results that it doesn't like. UK membership of the EU is insane and has no positive benefits. Our so-called 'free' trade costs us up to fifteen billions a year, and we have to accept the free movement of the entire EU population (over four million of whom are already over here). Why should the UK have to help to subsidise the rest of Europe? Our biggest market, by country, is the USA. The EU is NOT a country, although one day it will be, as its goal is 'Ever Closer Union,' which means the end of the nation state and the end of the UK. Everything about the EU is negative and restrictive. No rational person joins a club where the 'free' benefits entail being forced to hand over fifteen billion a year and having to give all of the other members the right to permanently occupy your home.

[@Geffo555]

I expect that history will have a kinder view of her once Boris' regime is put into comparison. Oh crikey! Project Farce heads for Halloween.

[@Geffo555]

​Then why is Farage an MEP? Tilbrook case was rejected by the way. He has appealed but I wouldn't hold your breath.

[@Geffo555]

@Mark Gable. Your assertion was "We have already left the Eu on March 29th by law." You were wrong. Tilbrook's challenge was rejected by law. And the referendum really wasn't a good example of democracy by the way. Vote Leave fined twice for breaking electoral rules. Facebook fined $5 billion! for allowing Cambridge Analytica to use their platform to influence elections. None of which is remotely democratic.

[@clairduffy60]

No deal Brexit, looks very likely now. Trump is hovering (as usual) and NI is getting restless.. Boris '.will make a success of it'..Or did Maybot say that..

[@Geffo555]

@Mark Gable. People voted based upon the arguments made at the time, as they do in every election. But they were also influenced by Vote Leave's marketing blitz. Turkey joining the EU. £350 million a week for the NHS, etc. And Vote Leave clearly thought that SCL (Cambridge Analytica) were worth the investment as they paid them a lot of money. Who are you trying to kid here?

[@Geffo555]

@Mark Gable. Oh, the actual company that Vote Leave hired was called AIQ. Facebook were paid over£2million to carry Vote Leave slogans in the two weeks before the referendum. And all targeted at voters who could be influenced. This is the nature of AIQ's business, and why Facebook was fined $5 billion. This is not democracy. It's programming. (Did you see what I did there?)

[@forza223bowe5]

I feel sorry for May in a way, but she wanted the job for career not for the country

[@shenkaed]

In it for herself and the glory; deep down she must have know she was totally unsuited for the role

[@skapunkoialternativeliving6522]

who gives a damn about the government ..

[@hazelsomaya3287]

You here too ? See you often with GPS !

[@elliotsodergren2270]

She could've done so much better if she didn't hold the snap election. It would've also worked better if she was allowed to act herself which would've made her look more human.

[@KingofCabal]

She would probably have been a good PM at any other time. She just wasn't up to the job though.

[@oskar3757]

A truly woeful PM. Devoid of a personality and political skill. Good riddance.

[@Jellygamer0]

@Dennis Menace Can you call it best though...

[@Jellygamer0]

@Dennis Menace She was and still is a terrible PM and even more inept MP.

[@jaapvanderplas8175]

it is easy to spend money on the backs of the tax payer

[@HungarianParagon]

The picture of May and the potted plants comes to mind.

[@MosherMike]

Out of her depth.

[@anthonymartinez7844]

Amazing ?

[@stephenroche5107]

The man who wanted to turn water cannons on uk citizens is now prime minister😃

[@inokajayasinghe7936]

Here The A7🌍 Data Model

[@johnnybourgeois13]

Cut and paste the following sentences into a search engine ? - " The multiplicity of parties, the icy fever of elections, the interminable changes of ministries aggravated the social crisis by creating a kaleidoscope of barren political combinations......the petty bourgeoisie rose up against all the old parties that had bamboozled it." If you have both the curiosity and patience to read the whole piece to the end (and it is a fantastic piece of deeply perceptive writing), please tell me that I'm being overly alarmist in believing that all of the socio-economic and political-ideological patterns described, are not clearly visible and actually happening to a certain degrees in a growing number of advanced Western societies...? In recent weeks, big name media presenters on US TV, most notably Donny Deutsch and Joe Scarborough, have not been afraid to call it out openly on their MSNBC shows, which are predominantly watched by the educated middle class and centrist left-ish older people. Madeleine Albright published a book warning of it earlier this year. Marx once said 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce..." 'Comedians' have been elected in several evonomically distressed countries recently. Inhuman forces are gathering, consolidating, and moving, and some of them are wearing the masks of amusing clowns. Cool heads and calm, serious voices are required. Solidarity. We may need a lot of it.

[@trewens]

I liked Theresa May. The Tory party should have given her more support - she ran a rubbish election campaign, though.

[@user-kt1jf7mk5i]

We should have had Boris three years ago.

[@Flugzeug101]

still enough time to loose your illusions about him, call him a traitor &, start wondering about who else could possibly do the trick that s supposed to be so easy...

[@user-kt1jf7mk5i]

@@Flugzeug101 Well there's always Farage :)

[@Flugzeug101]

@@user-kt1jf7mk5i ... he s EU spy really, I think...

[@clockmonkey]

He was around three years ago, not even running as a Candidate for the 2016 Leadership election that was his decision and I've no idea why he didn't.

[@Flugzeug101]

@Aaron Giles You have doubts Boris and his line-up of hardened Brexiteers will get Brexit over the finish line? Do or die? This man was one of the most fundamentalist leaders of the Brexit campaign, wasn`t he? So where do your doubts come from?

[@billgibson7233]

SO ITS GOODBYE TO THE WORST PM. THIS GREAT COUNTRY HAS EVER HAD ,. IF SHE HAD ANY KIND OF A BACKBONE , SHE WOULD FALL UPON HER SWORD , AND WE WOULD ALL CHEER …. HOORAY..AT LAST . SHE HAS DONE SOMETHING GREAT FOR OUR COUNTRY

[@samgross4411]

Excellent video I these style behind the scenes videos they are really informative Keep up! And I'm feeling great that the UK is once again being led in confident hands of our fornominal Boris Johnson

[@Cflixs]

Miss you Theresa

[@michaeldelisieux5252]

Panis et circensis.

[@akshainirajs-li9fw]

சாப்பிட காசு இல்ல சரக்கு அடிக்க காசு இல்ல ஸ்மோக் பண்ண காசு இல்ல எனக்கு செலவுக்கு பணம் வேணும் எந்த அக்கவுண்டில் இருந்து நான் பணம் எடுப்பது சொல்லுப்பா என்னால முடியல அதுக்கும் கஷ்டப்படுறேன பணம் வேணும் பணம் வேண்டும் பணம் வேண்டும் பணம்

[@coinparadise]

I love❤ Uk&EU

[@ffucckkyoutube5765]

good god I am happy she is gone! She was a fucking character from "down of the dead"

[@greendome8732]

BJ is just admiring TM beauty and beautification. TM underestimates BJ doesn't realise the new era of politics is not having intelligence rather having blonde hair, no humanity, prey on emotional politics, chomp burgers, tell lies, and most importantly have a big fat belly

[@skylebrown6070]

Another prime Minister we don't vote 4 , what are we all voting for , nothing change again

[@dangermouse9348]

We don't vote for a PM, we vote for an MP, and thereby a party. Only party members have rights to vote for who will lead that party. Finally, somewhere around 50% of our PMs have been "unelected". In fact, our greatest PM Winston Churchill was "unelected". He replaced Chamberlain in much the same way Boris is replacing May. As for change, well I guess we'll see. Not that I'm particularly hopeful either.

[@48sydney]

If you want to vote for a party leader you need to be a party member. Why don't you know that ? Its how the political parties work.

[@skylebrown6070]

Alan Walker , ur take it out off contents , just another way to hold on to power

[@paddingtunbear5057]

4:21

[@mrjesabi]

It says alot for the conservatives if the conservative leadership think it's bad for a conservative leader to be seen praying. Boris needs to surround himself with real conservatives.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

Do you think we need to give her another chance?

[@Greenpoloboy3]

@D M Well, you can protest and get lots of signatures

[@Jellygamer0]

@D M She's a Backbencher now, she is well away from the steering wheel.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

she'll be sat in the back repeating "Strong and Stable" rocking back and forth@@Jellygamer0

[@Jellygamer0]

@@Greenpoloboy3 Ha ha, yeah :D.

[@zo0mpa]

Channel 4, Anti-Brexit, Anti-Tory propaganda... As usual?

[@Guru_Bloke]

Give us a break dude. That's not valid.