Former PM’s doorstop-sized tome, Unleashed, recounts chequered political career in familiar boosterish tone
The chapters on Covid are the most painstaking, and amount to Boris Johnson’s justification of his decision-making at every stage.The chapters on Covid are the most painstaking, and amount to Boris Johnson’s justification of his decision-making at every stage.Boris Johnson’s 772-page doorstop of a memoir, Unleashed, recounts a chequered political career in his familiar boosterish tone.
He maintains these events were in line with Covid rules, but that his former chief of staff Dominic Cummings and his director of communications Lee Cain orchestrated a string of “grossly exaggerated” media reports in a deliberate attempt to undermine him.were, he says, “behind it all”. He believes he could have ridden out the storm, if he had been “far more robust at the time”.
He shook hands with staff when visiting Covid patients at the Royal Free hospital because “shaking hands is an ancient human gesture of goodwill” and he didn’t want to spread undue alarm. After the 2008 banking crisis, as mayor of London, he describes throwing his weight behind Crossrail to prevent George Osborne eyeing it up for cuts when the Tory coalition came to power in 2010. “Those big investments – Crossrail, the Olympic site, the Westfield Centre at Shepherd’s Bush – were fortuitously timed for London: vast counter-cyclical programmes that kept the spades going into the ground and people in work.
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