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The Last Governor was a BBC documentary presented by Johnathon Dimbleby which focused on the career of Chris Patten during his time as the last British Governor of Hong Kong prior to the Hong Kong handover. The documentary was filmed over five years between 1992 and 1997 and highlighted several issues that Patten as Governor of British Hong Kong had to deal with surrounding the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the introduction of universal sufferage in Hong Kong. It was first broadcast on 3 July 1997, two days after the handover. The programme was unable to be broadcast while Patten was Governor and in Hong Kong, with the introduction being that it was "...a story so sensitive that it can only be told because Chris Patten is no longer the Governor and no longer on what is now the sovereign soil of the People's Republic of China."