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Boris : the making of the prime minister / Andrew Gimson.

By: Gimson, Andrew [author.].Publisher: London : Simon & Schuster, 2016Edition: [New edition].Description: lxvi, 366 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781471162343; 9780857207395.Subject(s): Johnson, Boris | Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 920
Contents:
The birth of Boris -- The death of Ali Kemal -- Small blond heads -- Learning to be a Johnson -- Greek before breakfast -- An Etonian performance -- Genuine bogusness -- The Oxford politician -- Boris in love -- Troubled times -- Our man in Brussels -- Twelve days a bachelor -- The fall of Darius Guppy -- A telly star is born -- Ape gets Ming vase -- Member for Henley -- Conrad Black's indulgence -- The start of an affair -- Sellotaping everything together -- The calm before the storm -- Operation Scouse-grovel -- The pyramid of piffle -- Toff fired -- Theatricals -- Overtaken by Cameron -- Roman civilisation -- Coming up on the outside -- How this book was received -- Mayor Johnson -- Generous errors -- Wrestling with the prime minister -- The merry England candidate -- Stuck on a zip wire -- 'Do you have a golden toilet?'.
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Book House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey 920 JOH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 017725

Previous edition: 2006.

The birth of Boris -- The death of Ali Kemal -- Small blond heads -- Learning to be a Johnson -- Greek before breakfast -- An Etonian performance -- Genuine bogusness -- The Oxford politician -- Boris in love -- Troubled times -- Our man in Brussels -- Twelve days a bachelor -- The fall of Darius Guppy -- A telly star is born -- Ape gets Ming vase -- Member for Henley -- Conrad Black's indulgence -- The start of an affair -- Sellotaping everything together -- The calm before the storm -- Operation Scouse-grovel -- The pyramid of piffle -- Toff fired -- Theatricals -- Overtaken by Cameron -- Roman civilisation -- Coming up on the outside -- How this book was received -- Mayor Johnson -- Generous errors -- Wrestling with the prime minister -- The merry England candidate -- Stuck on a zip wire -- 'Do you have a golden toilet?'.

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