The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

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These interviews make a number of allegations against a few people who are named, and the odd one or two who are not.

Gove is also said to have been central to ousting Boris Johnson last year because the Movement regretted putting him in No. Cummings ran amok in Downing Street for a while, but Johnson sacked him as an adviser less than a year after the 2019 election. I will give the last word to an expert on conspiracies who has hailed Nads on Twitter/X by saying she has confirmed “what I have been writing for 30 years and this is only part of it”. Unfortunately, even if her ludicrous theories were correct, then Boris was a leader so weak and lacking in perception that he constantly got manipulated by the people around him. In a particularly headline-grabbling claim, she said that when a girlfriend ended a relationship with him, he is rumoured to have had her little brother's pet rabbit chopped into four and nailed to the front door of the family home.

You’ll remember that Boris Johnson, on becoming prime minister, took a keen interest in who should run both the BBC and Ofcom, the supposedly independent regulator which oversees it.

They groom potential leaders (and by extension, prime ministers), often choosing to remove them after a short period once they have outlived their usefulness. According to the book, he has a pass to Downing Street and "Rishi Sunak doesn't move without first seeking his advice", said the BBC. At one point Dorries stands in awe and wonder at the realisation that Johnson has just quoted a line of Wordsworth. A conspiracy theory that would have filled one side of A4, but she goes round and around and around for 351 more rather tedious pages.Boris Johnson when Dorries tells him what she’s uncovered: “Well there’s no evidence for that, I suppose, but it’s a good theory when you think about it. Some hours later the press office stirred itself to issue the This book isn't just a recounting of political events; it's a catalyst for change, urging a shift towards a more empathetic and effective governance in the UK. 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. Most important, however, is Dr No, the shadowy figure who has been pulling the strings in Westminster for as long as anyone can remember, according to Dorries.

Connoisseurs of the adversaries of James Bond, to whom Boris Johnson does indeed bear a striking resemblance, will know Bambi and Thumper as henchpersons of Spectre, an organisation that Ernst Stavro Blofeld made almost as scary as The Movement. Nads, honest soul that she is, confesses that she had doubts about committing to print what she has found out because it meant risking all she held dear. Third, much of which she "exposes" is predictable political maneuvering more than it is dark conspiracy. A cabal of power-hungry, manipulative people have had too much sway for the last 40 years over the way the party is run.What you really need to know is the identity of the puppet masters of this vast conspiracy that has been making and breaking Tory leaders all these years, including the finest Conservative prime minister who ever lived. Then there’s “The Dark Lord” – we are now on Harry Potter films – whom you will better know as Dominic Cummings. Look hard behind the conglomerated corporate ownership of our media companies and there are the puppet-masters, pulling on cables in their malevolent manipulation. We open with a scene in Cabinet and I was puzzled why it was written like a fictional story in which Nadine is the main character. It is a story, which can be told at last thanks to the tenacity and courage of Nadine Dorries, “of a damning trail of treachery and deceit by an obsessive pursuit of power, which threatens to topple the very fabric of our democracy”.

A good one might be how comes this book lasts over ten hours when largely it just repeats the same (largely unsubstantiated) information over and over? Reasons that this is terrible include: (1) it's highly repetitive; (2) it's sometimes really dull and tedious; (3) Dorries makes no effort to draw conclusions or make connections. Michael Gove is alleged to be a pivotal figure in the group, which is said to have been behind the ousting of Iain Duncan Smith as Tory leader in 2003.What I took away from this book was I naively believed I had some control at the ballot box this book destroyed that illusion .