When Boris Johnson sat down for a televised interview on The Andrew Marr Show, the BBC’s flagship Sunday program, he probably thought it was going to be easy. The British prime minister had battled with the broadcaster for days in order to be featured on the program without first agreeing to be interviewed by journalist Andrew Neil—a notoriously dogged interviewer—ahead of the Dec. 12 general election. For an hour, Marr grilled the prime minister about terrorism, healthcare, Islamophobia, and Brexit.