His whole life has been a gamble and the wonder is how many supporters of the British Conservative party are willing to ignore his blatant disregard for the truth just to keep their party in power.

The account of Boris’s life is pieced together from snippets and goes only part way to explaining the man, and is more interested in exposing the frailties of the man. Hopefully the author will publish an updated account when the paperback comes out and then follow up with part two at a later stage of Boris’s career.g. repeated use of “principle” when the correct word should have been “principal”), lots of sloppy grammar, syntax and punctuation, and many occasions when lazy journalism has kicked in (e.

Mais le plus captivant est sans doute la narration de l’incroyable, l’infaisable mise en œuvre et succès final du Brexit, que, semble-t-il, lui seul, pouvait mener à bout. Revelatory, unsettling and compulsively readable, it is the most timely and indispensable book yet from Britain's leading investigative biographer. New Paperbacks NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks.Bower adopts the Dominic Cummings position that Britain is run by unqualified and useless civil servants and bureaucrats and it’s they, not Johnson, who messed up. The same opportunism motivated him them to lead the Leave campaign, in spite of his lack of ideology, vision or belief in the project. My only quibble would be that when the Tory rebels were making life extremely difficult for their leader, once they had voted against him, he withdrew the whip, and every one of those hapless people have now gone from public life, (I think a few low key individuals remain) but I felt at such a critical time of Johnson's leadership, there needed more. Marina kicks him out over his affair with Petronella Wyatt, daughter of Thatcher pal Lord Wyatt, so he lodges with an old Balliol friend, whose wife happens to be the daughter of former cabinet secretary, Robin Butler. an assertion that is hard to square with her 16 years of experience in the highest court in the land, which routinely hears cases around administrative and constitutional law.