The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

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It was therefore wholly improper for Gibb to be trying to fix who got to be the chair of the BBC’s regulator. God, these people are so clever: virtually no one has heard of them and yet absolutely everyone is scared witless by them.

It is unfortunate that so many of them are anonymous, but that is an inevitable feature of dealing with a conspiracy as sinister as this one.He tried (in her version) so hard to devote his entire life to the service of others and to keep everyone safe during the Pandemic. The deal announcement comes seven months after initial reports about the book in the Evening Standardin which Dorries described it as a "a political whodunit". Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. My characters wake me in the night as I groggily turn on the bedside light and scribble down whatever words or lines they have woken me with…. Nadine Dorries is a bestselling author of fiction, bizarrely, and this seems to be a Boris Johnson fanfiction, essentially, with weird James Bond references.

In Nads eyes, Boris is a man of such intellectual stature, such unimpeachable character, such utter perfection that he clearly is a god amongst us mere mortals. You wonder what a Tory Mp was doing for decades, that she now suddenly appears surprised as to how her party has been run all that time.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. Now the Covid inquiry has unearthed his contemptuous WhatsApps, Nadine Dorries’s contention that Cummings seemed to consider himself in charge, and surreptitiously texted colleagues “what the fuck is this clown on about? Here, if I may venture a criticism of the author, she’s a bit of a letdown, pleading that “the legals” prevent her from full disclosure. He wanted his old chum Charles (now Lord) Moore, to be in charge of the BBC – an odd choice since Moore has a criminal record for refusing to pay the licence fee. Ms Dorries says Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, ex-No 10 senior adviser Dominic Cummings and Conservative Party adviser Dougie Smith are all part of the club.

Each person I interviewed … told me the same thing, that I was uncovering something dark and deeply undemocratic”. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.

So you’d think the BBC itself would feel some sort of obligation to assist in a fact-checking exercise. This week Nadine Dorries’s new book The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson has been published, and it has ruffled some feathers in Westminster. The portrayal of those involved is simplistic - Boris Johnson and his loyalists are all pure, honest and “nice” or “lovely”, motivated only by public service, while his opponents (Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings, Rishi Sunak) are duplicitous, arrogant and motivated only by power.