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The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story

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Securing face time was seen as a third route to influence, leading to tussles about who would be last with Boris before a decision was taken. Another said ‘you’d be lucky’ if 25 per cent of the time in a meeting was spent on the issue at hand. As the first tremors of the coming earthquake were felt, Labour failed to understand the lethal threat to its red wall base represented by the rise of Ukip, treating it instead as a far-right threat to the Tories.

In the pandemic, it was always going to be a problem that the rules implemented had a massive impact on a huge number of voters (many not interacting with anybody except those they lived with), whereas those working at No 10 continued in a Covid-existence that was very similar to their pre-Covid existence (even if we exclude the parties from the equation). Long before Johnson fell, some Cabinet ministers felt they were being sounded out by Sunak with an eye to potential support. During one of their conversations Sunak remarked that Lewis would make a good home secretary, according to one well-placed source. Parliaments, which are supposed to hold governments to account on behalf of the public, need to assert their power. Very little new here if you were following the story closely at the time (most of Payne's sources are twitter and contemporary articles) and essentially no analysis at all.As a 'first draft of history', it works well as a blow-by-blow account of the events leading up to Johnson's resignation (the postscript, on the leadership election that followed, is weaker). His acclaimed life of Boris Johnson, Boris, described by Michael Crick as 'my biography of the year', first appeared in 2006 and was reissued and updated on numerous occasions. Sunak had a firmer ideological commitment to traditional low-spend, low-debt and ideally low-tax Tory economics, seeing fiscal prudence as the way forward. It was Johnson who had brought him into the Cabinet, first as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then, aged just 39, as Chancellor.

The Thatcher government of the 1980s, Tebbit confesses, could and should have run down the mines “much more slowly” and done more to bring new work to the north-east. They are the occasion of his fall but they do not have the causal power that Payne repeatedly attributes to them. And yet it’s actually the chapter on Ukraine that is the most revelatory, for it tells the story of when Boris got it right.Instead time was spent trying to privatise C4 and dealing, every day, with the scandals that the government failed to control. Broken Heartlands is an exploration of how, in the election of December 2019, just such a seismic switch to the Tories took place across huge swathes of the Midlands and northern England. Further, Johnson’s end came in the immediate wake of accusations of serious sexual misconduct against a senior figure in his government.

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