Philip Hensher

Does Boris Johnson really expect us to think he’s Churchill?

And if not, what exactly is the point of The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History, by Boris Johnson? Apart from a couple of good jokes, that is...

Outside Downing Street in June 1943. Ten years earlier, no one would have thought it remotely likely that Winston Churchill would be regarded as his country’s saviour. [Getty Images / Shutterstock / iStock]
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  • The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

    Boris Johnson

    Hodder, pp. 416

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