The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson
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‘A riveting read that skips along at pace. Illuminating and concerning, it lifts the lid on the tawdry world of Westminster powerbroking’ Tim Shipman, The Times
The explosive behind-the-scenes account of the plot to bring down Boris Johnson
YOU THINK YOU LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THE ELECTED ARE CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE.
THINK AGAIN.
When Boris Johnson came to power in 2019, he did so with the largest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher. Rewriting the political map, he united a party and shattered Labour’s fabled red wall. And yet, just three years later, he was ousted by the same members who had once greeted his leadership so rapturously.
What had gone so wrong?
The Plot is the seismic, fly-on-the-wall account of how the saviour of the Conservative Party became a pariah. Told with unparalleled access, from multiple inside sources talking with astonishing candour, it reveals the shocking truth about powerful forces operating behind the scenes in the heart of Westminster and those who became the architects of a Prime Minister’s downfall.
This is the story of a damning trail of treachery and deceit fuelled by an obsessive pursuit of power, which threatens to topple the very fabric of our democracy.
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Additional information
| Publisher | HarperCollins (9 Nov. 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 352 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0008623422 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0008623425 |
| Dimensions | 15.9 x 3.2 x 24 cm |
by T. Denniss
Well done Nadine for giving us a different picture from all the biassed rubbish put out by the media about what was happening at No.10 in 2022. I’m sure that Boris would’ve made a much more effective job of running the country than his successors had he been given full support and continued as the PM chosen overwhelmingly by the electorate. The subsequent chaos inflamed by the media and the infighting and disarray within the Conservative Party has done nothing but harm, both nationally and internationally, to the Great Britain that we knew during the 20th century. Let us hope that the forthcoming election will enable us to find our way again and help recover at least some of our reputation and reestablish the United Kingdom that we have known and enjoyed in the past!
by Sirmoori
As someone who has served my country for all of my working life and being a staunch believer in the greatness of my country I found this book, brilliant as it is, made me so very angry. I can no longer have any faith in a political party I have always voted for that has so much corruption and, frankly, unintelligent, selfish, stupidity, operating in the heart of its organisation. In the hands, it appears, of a few disrupters, acting for some time now. What a shower of weak, nihilistic, power crazy and money seeking people. All to be despised. I would hope that if their intention is to see the Conservative Party burn itself to the ground, for no other set of reasons than Boris Johnson was the first Prime Minister in ages who acted for the people who elected him, then let it happen. I shall never vote again.
by Antonia
Those giving a 1 star review haven’t read it. It’s a gripping read. Only 4 because of much of the revelations are now already in the media.
by Insider
I am an avid reader of political memoirs. This is more a work of fiction. Boris Johnson is not a fit person to hold high political office; he humiliated himself as Foreign Secretary and humiliated the UK as prime minister. Through many well documented and very public errors, through a propensity to lie his way out of every tight corner he was the sole architect and constructor of his own downfall.
Dorries, an accomplished author of mush fiction, has been spectacularly unable to make the transition into factual writing. In a very badly written and hard to read volume, she tries to convince the reader that nothing was Johnson’s fault. Problem is – the full shameful saga was played out daily for all to see. We saw the bodies and we saw the smoking gun. Dorries has a bank of confidential sources (who I suspect only exist within her imagination) wheeled out to back up her crazy notion that it was everyone’s fault but Boris’s.
For all Johnson’s faults, he is a very fluent factual commentator in printed prose. Whether you are deluded enough to actually agree with him or not, his output is technically well constructed, easy to follow and comprehend. The same can not be said for his bitter and scorned disciple. This book is born of the incredible ‘crash to earth’ felt by Dorries, who not only saw her hero deconstructed, but realised that his promise of a peerage was as worthless as every other promise he has ever made. Read this book with that in mind, but remember to read it as a work of very badly written fiction.
by C A Reilly
Buy the book. It’s a corker. My thoughts – no spoilers. Knowing a few people on the inside over the years, some of the revelations were no surprise to me, but others were genuinely jaw-dropping.
There are many nuggets of info which explain a few mysteries, and the connections going back decades of some of the key players and many supporting roles, are laid out. Of course Dorries is a Boris fan, but what she uncovers is manipulation of other Conservative leaders of the past, one of whom, still a prominent backbencher, confirms that identical tactics were used on him. I found his corroboration very powerful, and Westminster Lobby journalists should have done so too. I suspect their motives in rubbishing the book, and also wonder why they have not been more interested in the Friday night Lockdown partying in the Press Office…
I enjoyed the book’s breathless style, the highly charged atmosphere lightened by descriptions of the covert locations and the food/drink consumed while interviewing the large number of civil servants, SpAds, past and present MPs and Tory party figures who were keen to reveal all, their anonymity guaranteed, and contributed to a composite picture which is at best unsavoury, and at worst a treacherous betrayal of Conservative leaders and those who elected them, some as leaders of the party, others to govern the country.
The shenanigans around the appointment of the Ofcom chair are extremely concerning. If journalists don’t mention that in their appallingly snobbish, dismissive reviews of this book, ask yourself why not? The answer is either that they haven’t actually read the book properly, or that they have allowed their dislike of Nadine and of Boris Johnson to cloud their judgement. They must be unbothered by subversion of our democracy; a form of insider dealing where a cabal, mostly unelected, interfered with a Prime Minister’s premiership for their own ends, for the promotion of their favoured colleagues, and to bring him down. A plan they had from the moment of his convincing General Election victory.
The Plot is a page turner; an extraordinary account of the fraught past few years and those behind it. How we have arrived where we are, with PM Sunak at the helm of a listing ship, and who they have lined up for us next. It left me wanting to box a few ears.
I read it in 5 hours flat, annotating as I went, and ordered 10 copies to sell in my shop this Christmas. Every year we sell one book I think is the perfect present or stocking filler. This year that’s The Plot. Highly recommended.
by London mum
Wow. Amazing book. Tory need to grow a pair and remove Rishi, Gove and Douglas before it’s to late.. It’s not over till the fat lady sings..