Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell's book serves as a cautionary tale for anyone dreaming of a Boris sequel
he had campaigned for is beautifully, shockingly told: he is overheard asking “what have we done?” after the result and then fretting about how distraught Samantha Cameron seems as her husband resigns from office. He shocks staff in Downing Street when, on winning the 2019 election, he claims there is an “oven-ready” plan to reform social care.
After worrying in his first few months that he would end up being the briefest PM in history , Johnson then assumed that with Brexit done, life would be relatively plain-sailing. Covid proved him very wrong on that, though interestingly this account doesn’t pin the blame for the early mistakes made fully on Johnson. Neither does it allow him to take the credit for the thing he is proudest of, the vaccine programme, saying that this falls to Emily Lawson who actually put together the successful campaign.
Indeed, Johnson relies heavily on brilliant people around him who by and large lose patience with the operation they have to deal with, if not the man himself. What makes this book so worth reading is that so many of these brilliant people have chosen to talk to Seldon and Newell, some of them unusually on the record. For instance,, tells the story of a “grovelling apology” from the PM after Cummings banned Johnson from speaking to him.
It won’t be the last book on Johnson, not least because there is almost certainly another act of this politician’s career to come. But as with the many acts he has already performed, it is unlikely Johnson himself will learn the lessons it offers.
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