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Heathcote Williams: Boris Johnson – The Beast of Brexit

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Heathcote Williams composed his ‘study in depravity’ more than three
years ago, before the 2016 EU referendum, before Johnson’s careless talk
condemned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to an Iranian jail cell, before the
police were called to a domestic dispute at his girlfriend’s flat,
before he said his hobby was making model buses out of old wine boxes.
But Williams’s portrait is as true a likeness of its subject now as it
was then.

Drawing on biographies by Sonia Purnell and Andrew Gimson, a great many
newspaper articles, and Johnson’s own journalism and TV appearances,
Williams assembles a blistering charge sheet: climate change denial,
dishonesty, hypocrisy, incompetence, racism, violence, ‘remorseless
self-promotion’, ‘a ruthless and often cruel ambition together with an
elitism and a ferocious temper when challenged’.

This title will be published and dispatched on Wednesday 24 July. It is
exclusively available here and at the London Review Bookshop (14 Bury
Place, WC1A 2JL).