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What a hoot! I laughed from beginning to end. It obviously has a bias. How could it not as an autobiography? But none of that detracts from the sheer fun of the book and the insight into the mind and actions of a man who is, without doubt, a giant of his time. He rose and he fell and who knows if he will rise again?
What comes across to me is the lack of any antipathy towards his erstwhile opponents and the hint that in many cases, behind the scenes, there may even have been a friendship.
Comparisons are always drawn between Johnson and his obvious hero, Churchill. And some of them bear scrutiny. But the one thing that Johnson exhibits is that, behind the ego necessary for any frontline Politician, there is humility, self-deprecation and an empathy towards his fellow man, that his detractors, harping on about his privileged upbringing, might find unsettling.
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THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSON
'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS
'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL
Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming Britain's prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as London's mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as foreign secretary. He won the largest Tory majority since 1987 when he went to the polls in December 2019 for a mandate to 'Get Brexit Done' - only to have his administration hit by the global Covid pandemic and toppledâŚ
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