The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

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That is, that there is this conspiracy between a small number of people in the Conservative party for the last 40 years that determines everything that happens. I suppose we expect politics to be Machiavellian but I was unsophisticated enough to think that the good of the people occasionally crept on to politicians’ radar.

He got bounced into policy decisions he didn’t agree with, he was fooled into appointing enemies or incompetents into every role around him, he even got fooled into fronting a Leave campaign by people who actually never wanted to win the referendum!Only time will tell whether the stories are true and whether there will be someone of such moral fortitude and strength of character that they can overcome this disparate group of men, or whether the Conservative Party dissolves into quarrelling groups of politicians.

The recommendation was down to the secretary of state, then Dorries, who would pass her choice to Johnson himself. Yet intermittently, there’s a glimpse of what could have been: an inside story, told by someone who never lost the feeling of being an outsider. If there was a single figure who bought about the end of Boris Johnson, who’s actions and inactions led to one of the most spectacular losses of electoral success, it’s the man on the front cover of this book, Boris Johnson himself. This isn't so much a novel as a collection of interviews, which shed light on the cancer at the heart of the Conservative party. when Britain was engulfed by a series of crises that will define its place in the world for decades to come.

Here, if I may venture a criticism of the author, she’s a bit of a letdown, pleading that “the legals” prevent her from full disclosure.