Johnson at 10: The Inside Story: The Bestselling Political Biography of the Year

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There is little positive that can be said about Johnson’s time in office (though he is rightly praised for his approach to Ukraine). Germany is considering abandoning its flagship €100 billion future combat jet project with France and joining a rival programme with Britain instead, The Times has been told. But Starmer seems micro when he could be macro, cautious when he could be passionate, dull where he could be inspirational.

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Anita Bean, a sports dietician and the author of The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, says that eating. No sooner had they done so than they start turning on each other over whose genius had been responsible for the success, and what to do with the spoils. Utterly unsuited to handling a crisis as grave as the pandemic, his endless prevarications and about-turns cost lives. One of the bleakest discoveries of the pandemic was quite how many people imagined themselves to be amateur epidemiologists brimming with compelling insights on lockdowns and vaccine science.It’s also acute on the legacy Johnson left that enabled the rise of Truss and the issues Sunak is being forced to reckon with. Donald Trump’s eldest son has testified in the fraud case brought against the family firm, acknowledging his leading role in the business but insisting that he relied on the advice of accountants when approving the financial statements that are at the heart of the case. He wanted to run No 10 with responsibilities fuzzed, everyone distrusting each other, currying favour and owing their loyalty to Johnson alone - very similar to another politician of recent times. In fact, Johnson turns out to be as responsible as anyone else for these caricatures, often blaming decisions he’s taken on his wife or his aides.

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Gove offered the account in a new book, Johnson at 10, by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, which documents the chaos and downfall of the Johnson premiership. That doesn’t make it any more comfortable for Johnson, who unlike Cameron hasn’t retreated for a period of silence in a shepherd’s hut. After his dramatic rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most turbulent period of British history in living memory. An expected announcement on the future of the country’s biggest steel plant has been delayed at the last minute, leaving the future of thousands of Welsh steelworkers in the balance.Sir Anthony Seldon, the famous headteacher, has been writing book-length report cards on British prime ministers for 40 years.