Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10

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Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris Johnson's turbulent time as prime minister, from the highs of a landslide election victory to the lows of his car-crash resignation. In Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10, Gimson sets out to discover how a man dismissed as a liar, charlatan and tasteless joke was able, despite being written off more frequently than any other British politician of the twenty-first century, to become prime minister. During his ascent, Johnson benefited from being regarded as a clown, for this meant his opponents failed to take him seriously, while his supporters delighted in his ability to shock and enrage the Establishment. He even changed the language of politics; a new word, &‘cakeism&’, entered the English lexicon to describe his implausible but seductive claim during the Brexit negotiations that it was possible to have one&’s cake and eat it. In a series of brilliant vignettes, Gimson sheds light on the parts played by sex, greed, boredom and low seriousness in Johnson&’s rise and fall, describes how Partygate fatally imperilled his prime ministership, and places him in a line of Tory adventurers stretching back to Benjamin Disraeli: disreputable figures who often blew themselves up, but who also could display an astonishing ability to connect with the British public.What kind of a person is Johnson? What kind of a country would dream of making him its prime minister? And why did he fall? Nobody has got closer than Gimson to finding out the answers.
Copyright:
2012

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Book Size:
432 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781398502802
Related ISBNs:
9781398502796
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster UK
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Copyrighted By:
Andrew Gimson
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
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