John Crace, the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer and author of Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10, searches Boris Johnson’s new memoir Unleashed for any signs of self-reflection.

“Clearly, Boris did hope that by writing this book, maybe the country would fall in love with him again,” John tells Helen Pidd. “But, if anything, it’s going to restore and revive ongoing resentments that have been buried.

“Boris has done somehow the most unforgivable thing of all. I mean, of course, it’s self-serving. Of course it’s riddled with inaccuracies, we kind of expect that. But he has managed to make his own life really, really boring.”

John and Helen discuss Johnson’s accounts of delivering Brexit, the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case, and his “series of pathetic apologies” over No 10’s Partygate.

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