Boris Johnson av Andrew Gimson

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<B>'Entertaining...essential...peppered with brilliant observations' Tim Shipman, <I>Sunday Times</I><BR/> Andrew Gimson, whose previous book <I>Boris</I> is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris Johnson's turbulent time as prime minister, from the highs of a landslide election victory to the lows of his car-crash resignation.</B> <BR/><BR/> In <I>Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10</I>, 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 twenty-first 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