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Book in the news… an overly sympathetic life of Johnson

Boris Johnson

The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10

Andrew Gimson Simon & Schuster (£25)

It’s barely a month since Boris Johnson left Downing Street, yet the first account of his time in 2006 – is not a traditional biography, says Keith Simpson on Politics Home. Rather, Gimson puts “a thorough knowledge of British political history and a discerning eye for the foibles

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