Kenneth Branagh is Boris Johnson in new teaser for Sky drama

The sandy hair, paunch and gimlet eye are unmistakable. Footage released today shows Branagh as Boris Johnson making his addresses to the nation and taking press conferences in Downing Street This is a fortnight after he steps down from power and is also the day that leadership favorite Liz Truss has said she will hold an emergency cost-of-living Budget. Pictured are the real-life Boris and Carrie Johnson, seen here arriving at the Conservative Party Conference in September 2019 Sir Kenneth Branagh, pictured here as Boris Johnson with Ophelia Lovibond as Carrie Johnson in the show, is unrecognisable There are numerous fictitious plot lines in Sky's four-part series, as well as invented characters. Ophelia Lovibond will play Carrie Symonds in the upcoming drama about Boris Johnson's handling of the coronavirus pandemic The actress who is playing the Prime Minister's fiance in a new Covid-19 TV drama has made her pro-Labour views clear on her social media. The Prime Minister and his fiancee seen leaving after the Commonwealth Service at London's Westminster Abbey in July last year It comes as one of Boris Johnson's key Brexit advisors resigned from his anti-Scottish independence role last month amid a new outbreak of infighting among the Prime Minister's backroom team - where more allies of Carrie Symonds are taking key positions.