ANDREW PIERCE: How David Cameron tried to sabotage Boris Johnson's rise to the top

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ANDREW PIERCE: Cameron's nefarious plot is revealed in The Rise And Fall Of Boris Johnson, a new four-part series on Channel 4.

David Cameron and Boris Johnson can't stand each other. It's a bitter rivalry that stretches back to their days at Eton College and Oxford University.

Daniel Ritterband, a Conservative strategist who helped Cameron become party leader in 2005 before running Boris's mayoral campaign, tells the programme: 'I took a call from Cameron's director of communications who said Dave wanted me to persuade Boris to run for mayor.' READ MORE: ANDREW PIERCE: Tory MPs are handed the profile of 'Candidate X' who could save the party from electoral catastrophe

Hardly. Only 697,000 viewers saw the tedious finale — reportedly one of the lowest ever totals for a BBC1 primetime slot.

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