DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Boris serves up a tonic for Tory troops
In an age dominated by drab, cliché-spouting politicians, Boris Johnson’s brilliantly vivid memoir, serialised in the Mail from today, provides a much-needed tonic. Boris Johnson’s brilliantly vivid memoir, serialised in the Mail from today, provides a much-needed tonic, in an age dominated by drab Boris Johnson clapping for carers outside Downing Street in April 2020. What a contrast there has been between the wave of positivity and good will that swept the country after his landslide, and the gloomy foreboding that followed Starmer's Among Mr Johnson's references to Sir Keir in his memoir is 'his puzzled/irritable face like a bullock unexpectedly having a thermometer shoved in its rectum’ He describes his elation at the success of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine roll-out, which would have been impossible without Brexit because of Brussels regulation. There are disobliging references to Sir Keir, ‘his puzzled/irritable face like a bullock unexpectedly having a thermometer shoved in its rectum’, Michael Gove, Emmanuel Macron and others.


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