Boris: the PM who could do no wrong

Robert Hutton

“I BEG READERS TO FORGIVE the tone of what follows,” Boris Johnson writes on page 708 of his autobiography, “since it falls firmly into the category of blowing your own trumpet.” It is a little late in the book for such becoming modesty. Over the course of the previous 58 chapters, he has blown his own trumpet so thoroughly that it is astonishing his lips, and indeed the instrument, can take any more. Unleashed is a 731-page paean to the brilliance of the author, who turns out to have been right pretty much all the time about everything. Well, not everything. Even Johnson is forced to admit, humbly, that there were occasions where he was sadly let down by the people around him. But even then, we learn, he had private…

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