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DAILY MAIL THE UNMISSABLE UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSON Boris Johnson has always been
larger than life. Controversial untrammelled by the normal rules of politics his route to
becoming Britain's prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist two terms as
London's mayor leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as foreign secretary. He won
the largest Tory majority since 1987 when he went to the polls in December 2019 for a mandate
to 'Get Brexit Done' - only to have his administration hit by the global Covid pandemic and
toppled in a Tory putsch. Unleashed is his account of his time in politics and a book that
shatters the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir. Written in his inimitable style it
is honest unrestrained and deeply revealing about the politician who has dominated our times.
This is his story of the fifteen years since he trounced Ken Livingstone at the polls to become
mayor of London. Riots tackling knife crime bikes buses the London Olympics and so much
more. He writes about his role in Brexit takes readers through all the big decisions and his
reasons for taking them and describes how he nearly died from Covid. Underlying everything in
the book is his view that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an exceptional
future. These are the reflections of a political leader who believes fundamentally in levelling
up - that there are millions of people in Britain who do not have the present they need or the
future they deserve and that it is the first job of politicians to put this right. It is all
here. From soup to nuts warts and all. As a journalist he was famed as a blurter of unsayable
truths and he has drawn again on this quality for the book. About people policies mistakes
and triumphs. This is it - the reality as he saw it: unvarnished unlocked unleashed.
