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Coming soon: lockdown politics book bonanza

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As Westminster reels from Alan Duncan’s shocking revelations that he didn’t much like Boris and that he should have been in the cabinet (not that he cared) who will be next to publish their tell all book? With the watering holes of SW1 shut for most of the last twelve months, politicians have been forced to find new ways to entertain themselves – including, err, writing about themselves. 

Below Steerpike runs down the list of those who are or will be shortly bringing out their lockdown projects:

Seumas Milne – the ‘thin Controller’ spent four years at the coalface of Corbynism as Labour’s director of communications between 2015 and 2019. Details of his forthcoming book have been kept hush hush so far but Mr S understands it is being written based on the diary he kept during his time at Corbyn’s side. Milne did not emerge well from the two main works published thus far – Left Out and This Land.

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