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That is exactly what the public in the small town of Cheltenham in the bourgeois English countryside want. To get Boris back. Here is the former prime minister at home. Here he launched his memoirs on Thursday evening, almost as if in a revival meeting. The cheering started almost before he had sat down in the earlobe chair on stage. He apologized for the slight delay. Elegantly worded. Funny. A very friendly crowd clutched their copies of Boris Johnson’s memoir, which was published this week. Photo: Håvard Blekastad Almås / NRKE The very friendly audience clung to their copies of Boris Johnson’s memoir, which was published this week. Photo: Håvard Blekastad Almås / news And when the journalist who bashed him tried to suggest that he had not kept his promises when he was a politician, a woman from the audience interrupted: – You are an absolutely brilliant person! The book, and its launch, is the first time Boris Johnson has explained what went wrong when he was forced to resign as Prime Minister and then MP. The regret doesn’t exactly sit on the outside. The book also opens with a robust “Hasta la vista, baby”. On Thursday this week, Boris Johnson’s memoirs were available in British bookshops. Photo: Hollie Adams / Reuters On Thursday this week, Boris Johnson’s memoirs were available in British bookshops. Photo: Hollie Adams / Reuters Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Mayor of London, Brexit activist; the bristle head has worn many hats. He reached the pinnacle of British politics. But many would argue that he took it to a rock-bottom level. With lies and false hopes. With sly comments and characteristics. With “party gate” and whimsy. The story of how Johnson’s big election victory was followed by the pandemic and the “partygate” scandal – before his own people finally turned against him. I have leafed through many of the almost 800 pages of the memoir Unleashed. I saw him on stage in Cheltenham, and this week have heard and read several interviews with him. Let me give you some of the stories he tells: Invasion of vaccine stocks in the Netherlands Boris Johnson considered invading the Netherlands. During the pandemic, there were millions of vaccine doses in a warehouse in Leiden that Johnson believed belonged to Great Britain. He wondered if it was possible to loot the warehouse. And it worked. But it is not particularly wise to invade a NATO ally, the advisers believed. As a result, nothing was raided. Britain never received those vaccine doses. Israeli eavesdropping equipment on the toilet In 2017, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the British Foreign Office. Boris Johnson was Foreign Secretary. Netanyahu went to the bathroom. – It could be a coincidence. But I was later told that listening devices were found in the bathroom afterwards, writes Johnson. When Benjamin Netanyahu visited then Prime Minister Theresa May in 2017, Boris Johnson was Foreign Secretary. Afterwards, eavesdropping equipment was found in the British Foreign Office, Johnson claims. Photo: Matt Dunham / AP When Benjamin Netanyahu visited then Prime Minister Theresa May in 2017, Boris Johnson was Foreign Minister. Afterwards, eavesdropping equipment was found in the British Foreign Office, claims Johnson. Photo: Matt Dunham / AP The Israelis have not commented on this claim. In the past, the US has expressed similar concerns about Israeli surveillance, according to Politico, among others. Trump gave him “illegal” Covid medicine Donald Trump tried to come to the aid of Boris Johnson, when the latter was dying of Covid in 2020. Trump wanted to give Johnson medicines that were not approved in the UK. – I never saw them, but representatives from the American pharmaceutical industry were present in the hospital corridors. They were sent by Donald Trump in an attempt to revive me, writes Johnson. Defends “partygate” The former prime minister still believes that he did not break any rules in what was nicknamed “partygate”. A total of 126 employees in Downing Street were fined for breaking the covid rules. Among them the Prime Minister himself, which he calls “absurd”. – I didn’t see any cake. I didn’t eat any cake. I didn’t sing. I didn’t dance, he writes. He believes his only mistake was that he apologized. Queen Elizabeth’s cause of death Then Boris Johnson does something you just don’t do according to royal protocol: He reveals secrets about the monarch. Queen Elizabeth had bone cancer. On the death certificate it is written, apparently at her own request, that she died of old age. Queen Elizabeth two days before her death. She was pale, but not mentally impaired, writes Boris Johnson in his memoirs. Photo: POOL / ReutersQueen Elizabeth two days before her death. She was pale, but not mentally impaired, writes Boris Johnson in his memoirs. Photo: POOL / Reuters Boris Johnson met the Queen just two days before she died in September 2022. That was when he stepped down as Prime Minister. She was pale and had bruises, probably from injections. But she otherwise did not seem weakened, he writes. Defends Trump in storming Congress Trump did not try to undermine the Constitution on January 6, 2021, Johnson claims. The storming of Congress came after Donald Trump refused to concede election defeat. He had encouraged demonstrations at the Congress building. Demonstrators entered the building and threatened the elected officials. – What actually happened was a peaceful transfer of democratic power from one administration to another, Boris Johnson elaborates in a launch interview with Times Radio. Thinks Trump could have averted the invasion of Ukraine And Johnson continues to speak warmly of the man who is again trying to become American president. If Donald Trump had that role in 2022, Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine, claims Boris Johnson. He believes it is unlikely that Trump will “make the Soviet Union great again”, and refers, among other things, to the fact that he threw out 60 Russian diplomats in 2018. Does not rule out a comeback Boris Johnson does not rule out a return to British top politics. Although he supposedly dreaded the famous question hours in the House of Commons so much that he almost gave up on becoming prime minister last time. – I used to say that my chances of becoming prime minister were the same as being reborn as an olive or decapitated by a frisbee, he writes. He said that before he became prime minister. Now he is open to getting involved politically again, “if you think you can be useful”. This is how Boris Johnson signs the special edition of the memoir “Unleashed”. Photo: Gry Blekastad Almås / NRKSlike Boris Johnson signs the special edition of the memoir “Unleashed”. Photo: Gry Blekastad Almås / news When Boris Johnson was little, he wanted to be king of the world. He didn’t become that. But this week he was the king of Cheltenham. – We lack his type of charisma and entertainment in politics. He’s a bit of fun, a bit of honesty and a bit of charisma. That’s what it takes, one of the many enthusiastic audience members told me afterwards. Tim from Cheltenham wants Boris Johnson back in politics. But he is unsure whether he can bear to read all the nearly 800 pages in the book “Unleashed”. Photo: Håvard Blekastad Almås / news But the reviewers are not as enthusiastic. They label Johnson a clown, a narcissist and a gossip monger, among many other things. The book requires the reader to trust that what he writes is true, and you can’t do that, believes The Guardian. I grabbed the youngest ones I could find at the Boris launch in Cheltenham. There were very few of them. Four 16-year-old girls were almost in shock. – Someone who has been the country’s top leader should be able to properly answer what he did wrong, not just laugh it off, said Imogen Bacon. The 16-year-olds Miette Wen, Imogen Bacon, Sophie Chan and Beeland Rogers study politics. But they’re not keen on Boris Johnson, funny though he is. Photo: Håvard Blekastad Almås / news But the entertainment machine Boris Johnson probably chuckles both inside and out. He is inclined to rake in the memoirs, and can keep laughing – all the way to the bank. Read more correspondence from Gry Blekastad Almås: Published 12.10.2024, at 20.05



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