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BORIS JOHNSON admires Churchill. He has written a book about him: The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History. He fancies himself a Churchillian figure. And indeed, he is. Not so much in his comparison to Churchill’s overseeing Britain’s part in the defeat of Nazi Germany, but more in his debacles and disasters. Here are just a few of Churchill’s. His use of soldiers against the miners and other union action. Two strikers were shot dead in Liverpool in 1911. In 1915 he orchestrated the disastrous Dardanelles naval campaign and the military landings on Gallipoli. The famine in Bengal of 1943 is attributed to Churchill’s policies. Over 2.2 million died from of a population of 60.3 million. ....
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See all pages “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”. ....