Boris Johnson: The Gambler
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Bower’s recitation of the failures of, for example, Public Health England is certainly damning of that body, but surely the task of leaders is to get a grip when something is not working.
Michael Gove, the education minister, was under attack from both teachers and parents for making the curriculum more demanding. No matter that she had forgiven him so much; she had dared to deny him once too often when he demanded unquestioning full-time adulation.He is also able to dive into an amazing amount of detail about particular events, meetings and conversations (literally what was in text messages, what people were eating etc.
If you happen to be a Johnson fan, this book will provide you with all the confirmation bias you need. A really enjoyable and well-written read, I will certainly be looking for more of this author's biographies - 9/10. Gammon and spin-age: I wanted to read a biog of our Lord and master that might uncover whether there is any substance beneath the contrived meejah image, but Tom Bower’s The Gambler isn’t it. This one is a detailed account of Boris Johnson's life, focusing on his career as a politician, as an MP, as Mayor of London, in the Brexit referendum, and ultimately as Prime Minister with even some bits covering the pandemic.Officials, aides, junior ministers, Cabinet colleagues, the Foreign Office and the BBC have all let Johnson down — in Bower-view it is always their fault, never Johnson’s own. The onetime Telegraph diarist Quentin Letts is struck that Johnson never passed on any gossip: “He doesn’t notice people’s quirks and their embarrassments,” Letts observes, which Bower puts down to Johnson’s “narcissism”: he’s just not that interested in anyone other than himself.
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