Brexit: a portrait of political paralysis

Paul Goodman

NO WAY OUT IS THE THIRD BOOK in Tim Shipman’s Westminster-focused account of Brexit and its consequences. All Out War covered the referendum itself. Fall Out dealt with the rise of Theresa May. Out, the fourth and final volume, due in July, will turn to the rise and fall of Boris Johnson — and that of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Which leaves only the fall of Theresa May, the subject of this third volume and the most shaming book I have ever read. This may not seem immediately apparent from its detail. The tale Shipman tells is not, as the cliché has it, the first draft of history. As he points out in his acknowledgements, Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell got there earlier, as have others — but not…

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