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Rory Stewart has avoided the traps Boris’s critics usually fall into

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In this week’s TLS Rory Stewart reviews Tom Bower’s biography of Boris Johnson. He doesn’t say much about the actual book, but it’s one of the most important articles on the prime minister I’ve read for a long time.

Just now, in place of ‘the prime minister’ I wrote ‘Boris’, deleted it, then wrote ‘Johnson’ and deleted it.

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Theo Hobson
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Theo Hobson is the author of seven books, including God Created Humanism: the Christian Basis of Secular Values

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