Boris Johnson is enjoying himself back at The Spectator. ‘My place of former employment,’ the former editor booms as he sits down, stands up, and starts re-ordering items around the wood-panelled office. ‘I like this book-lined air that you’ve given me – very, very grand.’
‘I found the pandemic a nightmare because I was genuinely uncertain as to the efficacy of what we were doing’
He’s spent the past month flogging his memoir, Unleashed. He hopes to hit 100,000 UK sales well before Christmas. Such is his enthusiasm for his cause that he was kicked off the Channel 4 US election night show for ‘banging on about his book’. ‘I’ve been in the Gulf, where I didn’t sell very many copies, but in Paris I sold a lot,’ he explains. Australia is next.
One memorable stop was Argentina, where he met Javier Milei. The local press excitedly reported that he’d agreed to set up a meeting between the Argentinian President and Mick Jagger.
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