Boris Johnson's new memoir, 'Unleashed,' covers his time as London mayor, Brexit campaigner, foreign secretary, and prime minister. However, unlike typical political memoirs that offer introspection and confessions, Johnson's book lacks any genuine self-reflection. The author focuses on his personal experiences and perspective without delving into deeper analysis or accountability for his actions.
ritten once their authors have lost power, most prime ministerial memoirs try at some level to be reflective. David Cameron’s begins by confessing that he still has daily anxieties about having called the Brexit referendum. John Major’s starts even more disarmingly, by wondering why he went into politics at all.does not do reflective. He never has and he never will. And nor does his new memoir, with its unnerving title, Unleashed.
There’s a lot worth parsing there. And plenty that is characteristic of Johnson’s writing more generally. There’s the rubber ball image and the exuberant vocabulary. But then there’s also the sheer dishonesty and the lies. In reality, Johnson was a chronically indecisive prime minister, emphatically not one who led from the front. The PPE wasn’t being sorted at all, either, nor the care homes fixed.
And, yes, he regularly uses a cascade of words when a single one would do. “I wanted to create ladders, springboards, trampolines, catapults – anything to help kids with energy and talent,” he writes on his levelling up policy.
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