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Unleashed: John Crace digests Boris Johnson’s memoir

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The former PM probably hoped this book would make the country fall in love with him again, but it will only revive the resentment, John Crace tells Helen Pidd. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

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0:45.0

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1:00.4

language courtesy of David Cameron allegedly.

1:05.0

Well, where to start?

1:07.0

There is that sort of lingering sense of depression when it first arrives and you realize how long it is and how much of Boris's life you're going to have to endure.

1:25.0

Late night sitings, interminable debates, terrible jokes at the dispatch box.

1:30.0

John Craze has suffered a lot as the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer.

1:35.0

Then he had to read Boris Johnson's memoir,

1:39.0

unleashed, all 731 pages of it.

1:50.0

Unleached rather suggests that you're going to get the sort of unexpigated truth. You know, the real Boris Johnson that he felt that he couldn't show us or tell us about when he was in Parliament and as indeed when he was in number 10.

2:01.0

It's hard to contain this book. It's so...

2:03.6

Okay, well, look. It's...

2:04.6

It's been hammering to get out for months.

2:08.2

Boris has done somehow the most unforgivable thing of all. I mean of course

2:17.1

it's self-serving, of course it's riddled with inaccuracies, we kind of expect

2:22.0

that, but he has managed to make his own life

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