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“I have been a political reporter for almost three decades,” writes Peter Oborne in his new book, “and I have never encountered a senior British politician who lies and fabricates so regularly, so shamelessly and so systematically as Boris Johnson.” Oborne, a Fleet Street veteran, has long been interested in political mendacity, said Michael Burleigh in the Literary Review. His previous books include
The Rise of Political Lying, in which he catalogued the distortions of the Blair era.
The Assault on Truth sets out to examine “how, under Boris Johnson and his soulmate Donald Trump, lying has become endemic in political culture”.