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Entertainingessentialpeppered with brilliant observations Tim Shipman Sunday Times

Andrew Gimson whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnsons earlier career returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris Johnsons turbulent time as prime minister from the highs of a landslide election victory to the lows of his carcrash 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 twentyfirst 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 ones 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 Johnsons 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