More than that, the litany of mis-spelled words : “his principle enemy”; “the principle reason he did X. 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.

It goes from very one-sided information to something nearing fiction when the chapters about the pandemic start. New Paperbacks NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks. His transformation from bumbling stooge on Have I Got New for You to a triumphant Mayor of London was overshadowed only by his colourful personal life, brimming with affairs, scandals and transgressions. Mildly enjoyable reading, Bower’s book lacks the analysis or insight I’d hoped for from the Kitty Kelley of the political and business worlds, which is what comes of writing about someone you fancy.

Is it a coincidence that a book about Boris Johnson, a known liar, doesn't stick to the truth as much?

But what makes the book very interesting is the description of all political contradictions, not only between the parties but also within the party. When it comes to criticise one of the models produced for the pandemic, the author is unsure if it was written in C or Fortran (p.Ever since Harold Wilson imposed socialism on Britain after 1964, the country’s decline had been marked by a crippling brain drain. Other characters are presented in glowing descriptive terms, again quite without necessity, suggesting the author’s bias.

Johnson Snr is faithless and a creep: in the parched summer of 1976, he told the family’s two au pairs that the water shortage made washing clothes impossible and therefore they would have to follow the lead set by him and his wife and walk around naked, which they duly did. I was hoping for more detail and insight into Johnson’s own hospitalisation and brush with death as a result of Covid, but all that Bower presents is a rehash of existing information from other sources. This is a compulsory read for all who wish for better in our country, so that we may forgive and support our prime minister rather than berate him, for we must put aside differences as much we can so as to improve all our lives. It’s very rare that I find a biography so hard to put down that I put away 300 pages in one weekend, but this one hit the spot!It would be hard to imagine Churchill pleading that he could do no more than follow the guidance of his subordinates. He rarely mentions Corbyn, the former Labour Party leader, without describing him as "the anti-Semitic Marxist".

I struggled with parts of the book, was the author expressing his opinion or was he writing what he thought Boris was thinking…if the latter, he needs a different approach. 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. I found this unauthorised biography of Boris Johnson totally engrossing - it came across to me as a balanced and unbiased representation of his life and career about a man whose behaviour has been, on occasion, maddening and reprehensible.For instance he made no mention of Johnson's refusal to recommend John Bercow to the House of Lords, although Hammond was rewarded.