The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

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Well, quite – but where is the pantomime being staged? Just this week, the Mail has hailed Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement for giving the “biggest tax cuts since the 1980s”, but warned: “Let’s hope it’s just the start!” The very next day, it splashed approvingly on “Suella leads Tory revolt on migration”, and added in an accompanying leader that “many are aghast that Rishi Sunak is still merely tinkering at the edges”. HarperNonFiction originally set the publication date for 28th September 2023. Publisher Adam Humphrey negotiated the deal for world all-language rights with Piers Blofeld at Sheil Land Associates earlier this year.

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The MP, who drew criticism in 2012 for going on the reality show I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, has said that she wrote the novel for fun between Commons votes. She has always, she told the Guardian via her publisher, loved the saga genre, starting out with Susan Howatch's Penmarric – set in Cornwall and following the stories of feuding families from the Victorian era to the second world war – and Sins of the Fathers. Take a Look at Our Summary of November Highlights, Whether You're Looking for the Latest Releases or Gift Inspiration The novel, out on 10 April, sees the MP take on the challenge of regional accents with gusto – "Jaysus, Kitty, someone has just walked over me grave, so they have" – ladling on the poverty and the overcrowding ("Between her nine children there were five pairs of shoes. Whoever's turn it was for the shoes would play outside, or go to school that day") and not worrying about offending with stereotypes: "Jerry was an Irishman. He might have been about to have sex for the first time in almost two years, he might have been angry and have lost all reason, but he wasn't going to spill the Guinness."

It’s felt pretty deranged for quite a long time,” one reporter said. “You know you’re not writing for the LRB [London Review of Books], and that’s fine, but you do expect to trust the judgment of the people in charge. There are a lot of talented people – but there have been so many calls now where we’re in a totally parallel reality.” Today, instead of a hotline to middle England, Verity’s Mail looks like the house publication of the Conservative party’s untrammelled id.

Braverman wrote Sunak a horrible letter, and her allies let it be known they were planning a “grid of shit” in a fairly implausible attempt to force him out. This, the paper’s editorial admitted, wasn’t a great idea. “Rebel Tories are once again talking of going to war against Downing Street,” it said. “Have they learned nothing from the pantomime of the past two years?”