Boris Johnson’s performance art
Is the media campaign to promote his new memoir also a return to politics?
ByBoris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, better known as “Boris Johnson”, is a British politician. He is a member of parliament, the former mayor of London, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom between July 2019 and September 2022, and the former leader of the Conservative Party. Johnson studied at Eton College and then read classics at Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He has also worked as a journalist with different publications, such as the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis on the former prime minister here.
The two sides of Boris Johnson
His memoir Unleashed contains surprising moments of candour – but they are swept away on a tide of shameless self-justification.
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The wrongness of Boris Johnson
Despite being strewn with mistakes, Unleashed shows that deep down the former PM always believes himself to be right.
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What’s driving the anti-Sue Gray offensive?
Plus: Britain’s guilty libel laws and Boris Johnson at the Telegraph.
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Rishi Sunak makes his last stand
The Prime Minister’s final push was a greatest hits of Tory failures.
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The end of the Brexit delusions
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom left the EU – but four years later, Brexit is still a slogan…
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Boris Johnson prioritised Brexit politics over public health
At the Covid-19 Inquiry, it was clear that British exceptionalism defined the former prime minister’s pandemic response.
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It’s time to rebut the lockdown sceptics
A future pandemic will be much harder for the government to deal with if we learn the wrong lessons from…
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The Tories are lucky to be rid of Boris Johnson
At the Covid Inquiry, the former PM appeared muddled, aggressive and, by the end, crushed.
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A blunderer in high office
The Covid Inquiry has revealed that Boris Johnson treated Covid with insouciance, even after its lethal potential was known.
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Murder, she wrote
Nadine Dorries has been ridiculed for alleging that a treacherous “movement” controls the Tory party. But are her worst suspicions…
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GB News isn’t a news channel – it’s Tory TV
Boris Johnson’s appointment as a presenter is a moment to have a serious conversation about the channel’s future.
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Britain’s mediaocracy never has to say it’s sorry
Failed politicians are taking over the media.
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We still can’t escape Covid
The Covid inquiry is doing roughly the same thing to national morale as the pandemic itself.
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The Covid Inquiry: Inside a toxic government
Revelations have covered “f***pigs” and blowing hair dryers up noses.
The Tories should feel no nostalgia for Boris Johnson
As the Covid-19 inquiry has confirmed, Johnson was wholly incapable of doing the job of PM.
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Partygate on Channel 4 should inspire a revolution
For those of us who didn’t read every word of the Sue Gray report, this pandemic drama reveals the extent…
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Danny Kruger: “The moral condition of England is worse”
The MP and former political secretary to Boris Johnson reflects on the Tories’ decline.
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You can thank Boris Johnson for Ulez
Sadiq Khan is owning his predecessor’s policy.
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Nadine Dorries is the Tory Miss Havisham
Her resignation statement marked the end of the Johnson era.
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