Boris Johnson: The Gambler

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Another brilliant book by the master biographer ― Piers Morgan --This text refers to the paperback edition. After reading this book I can see him being off by the middle of next year if not earlier, he really is the English Donald Trump!

Although there are artfully placed tales of unreliability, infidelity and double-crossing, mostly these are of the “ooh you are awful” variety that serve to propagate the myth, and conceal a slide into fan-wank.Charlotte, who eventually had a breakdown and was hospitalised, says of her son: “I have often thought that his being ‘world king’ was a wish to make himself unhurtable, invincible, somehow safe from the pains of your mother disappearing for eight months. Boris Johnson would be a great fictional creation, both because of his many inconsistencies and the way in which individuals who know him seem to have a similar attitude toward the man as the general voting public -- see the willingness of women to forgive his multiple indiscretions and one day trust he might do better.

Unfortunately, however, as it progresses it becomes more rushed and less well-structured, and the final few chapters almost completely ignore Brexit at the expense of a very generalist account of the battle against Covid. But then most high-achievers in their fifties have long since moved on from blaming the flaws of their parents for their own misdeeds, especially when they have been blessed with a great deal of love and support from others along the way. That said, there are one or two amusing anecdotes revealing the depth of Johnson’s rivalry with David Cameron and his disdain for the acolyte George Osborne - such as his having initiated fisticuffs with each of them during the coalition years and their having to be pulled off by aides (fnarr fnarr), or Boris’s text on the morning of the 2015 general election: “good luck Dave and if you bog it up I’m standing by to fill the gap! Bowers appears to rely heavily on newspaper articles verified through interviews to piece together his account.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. Keeping promises isn’t his strong suit, I can exclusively reveal, and there are going to be a lot of disappointed and possibly very angry people as these begin to pile up. I was very curious about this biography, I know that Boris Johnson evokes quite a few negative feelings in many. but for sure his presence on the scene over the past 10 years has changed the UK forever, and sadly at the moment it does not look too good. It is symptomatic of the darkness of this book that makes you want to close it and never look at it again.

Bower is far from objective, he is an absolute conservative, convinced that people are unemployed because they don't want to work and shit like that. The onetime Telegraph diarist Quentin Letts is struck that Johnson never passed on any gossip: “He doesn’t notice people’s quirks and their embarrassments,” Letts observes, which Bower puts down to Johnson’s “narcissism”: he’s just not that interested in anyone other than himself. Free of Sonia Purcell’s (author of Just Boris) personal dislike and Andrew Gimson’s (author of Boris) friendship, Bower, who admits he knows Boris a little through his wife as a colleague, draws a reasonably balanced picture with a few revelations which immediately hit the newspapers after publication. Has good explanations of Boris 'secretive' personal life and provides explanation of some decisions re: COVID-19 chapters that make a welcome change from the mainstream media narrative. Dip Into NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks.But my alarm bells started ringing before I started reading the book, when I spotted in the acknowledgements Bower’s statement that the book had been conceived in the summer of 2019. His previous book published in 2018, The Rebel Prince the story of Prince Charles's scandal ridden bid to rehabilitate himself after Princess Diana's death, was a number one best seller. He dedicates a significant part of the later quarter of the book to Covid, where I think he went so off-piste with his confident analysis that I felt the whole thrust of this bio was to absolve Boris of any culpability and to frame him as potentially one of the greats - if only we and the media would give him a chance. Tom Bower exposes the fragility of Johnson’s relationships, the lack of self confidence, his fear of conflict and his need for a female soulmate.