The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

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Instead, I found a fault line within the Conservative Party stretching back decades and a history of deception fueled by the darkest political arts,” she added. Beginning with the controversial prorogation of Parliament in August and the historic landslide election victory later that year, Johnson was barely through the door of No. It is a small consolation that everyone else in British political journalism failed to see it as well. Or even the way Dorries, a woman far sharper than critics suggest, casts herself for narrative purposes as a political ingenue, roaming Westminster asking impossibly wide-eyed questions as she tries to establish who killed Boris Johnson’s career. Gove and Cummings, meanwhile, have sought to laugh it off, the latter smirking: “She’s right, there was a giant conspiracy including MI6, the CIA and, most crucially, the KGB special operations department.

However, one must give the book credit for being such a carefully crafted and interesting work of fiction, which presents a story which is too conspiratorial and shady to be true, but nonetheless makes for a relatively fun read. It was shortly after Boris Johnson won his landside majority that his aides first began plotting to oust him.They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. Then there’s “Dr No” who is paid by Conservative Central Office and circles round the fringes of sex parties. This behaviour if it is as prevalent as ND has been advised then it undermines our whole democracy and British people deserve better.

Curiousity got the better of me so I borrowed this book from the library (as I couldn’t bear to part with hard earned cash for any work by ND). Then I read ND's book and she talks to many people including ex PMs (Iain Duncan Smith) who advise her that the main decisions are taken by the "movement" being lead by Red Throat, Dr No, Dougie Smith (non of them elected members) who then in turn advise Richi Sunak. The Plot is the seismic, fly-on-the-wall account of how the saviour of the Conservative Party became a pariah. In it, she claims there was a plot orchestrated by a secret cabal of back room advisors, politicians and individuals in the media to overthrow Boris Johnson. And yet, just three years later, he was ousted by the same MPs who had greeted his leadership so rapturously.

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.