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Boris Johnson: Where did Tories go wrong? Thinking they didn’t need me

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Boris Johnson's new book, Unleashed , is last word on his time as London mayor and foreign secretary.

He admits to “arrogance”, “complacency” and a fatal failure to keep his MPs happy.

The book, like his speeches, is “organised like one of those mega towers of chocolate digestive biscuits that you get when you're revising the finals,” he says.

He says leaders need to treat love and hate from voters as Kipling ’s impostors’ He has a low opinion of Keir Starmer (He just used to stand there blinking like a stunned mullet. He was very slow on the turn’) and seems keen to get stuck in.

Johnson wants a huge lend-lease programme’ for Ukraine with a “ trillion-dollar loan” He believes the world should not fear a Trump return to the White House .

The Tories , he believes, “will come back” — but in every answer he thinks this would be more quickly accomplished with himself at the helm.

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