Why Bernard is our big-screen bumbler

IN CHANNEL 4’s Brexit: The Uncivil War, veteran Leaver Sir Bernard Jenkin was played by actor Tim McMullan, pictured in the role – not as a campaign hero but as a bumbling, out-of-touch obstacle to Vote Leave’s ‘genius’ Dominic Cummings. But he should be used to getting a raw deal from the silver screen. He is the inspiration for every irritating Bernard in Richard Curtis’s films – including a sad, lovelorn character in Four Weddings And A Funeral.