Boris’s memoir to drop during Tory leadership battle

Boris Johnson is back. The ex-prime minister is preparing to grace the nation with his musings as the launch date of his new memoir Unleashed looms. The former Tory leader’s latest work will be unveiled at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on 10 October, with his publishers promising the ex-PM will ‘explore the big decisions of his time in power’ and ‘shatter the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir’. And the October release date ensures Johnson’s tome will hit bookshops almost a month before the conclusion of the Conservative party’s leadership race, in timing that might leave some contenders more than a little anxious about how his version of events will sway the membership…

BoJo’s memoirs have not come cheap. At the start of 2023, it emerged the ex-PM received an advance of over half a million pounds for his reflections – over 66 times that received by his short-lived successor, Liz Truss.