The Right to Rule

Sadly, I found this disappointing. If you want a strong narrative account of the Cameron to Sunak storyline, it fits the bill admirably, and becomes progressively more interesting as the events described become less and less believable. Where it fails is in explaining how a centrist, business-friendly, socially respectable party morphed into the fringe rump that could choose a manifestly unsuitable Liz Truss as the UK Prime Minister. It charts the Parliamentary upheavals well enough – though its account of Boris Johnson suffers in comparison to the seminal Anthony Seldon tome. The failure to relate these to the wider Conservative party and its loss of members and thought-leaders following BREXIT is a shame, so I fear the definitive history of this tumultuous decade is still to be written.