'Politics has never been so full of deception. They're laughing at us' 🟠 As Robert___Harris releases his new novel, he explains how it speaks to post-Brexit Britain and why it wasn’t hard to predict Boris Johnson’s downfall
is about a 17th-century manhunt for two of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant.
Indeed, Harris, 65, a former political journalist, does not have to bury his views in the pages of a novel; he is more than happy to comment directly on current affairs, although he says he finds politics “so depressing” at present. He describes Liz Truss as “pretty flaky”, and thought Rishi Sunak was “intellectually streets ahead”.
Harris does a blustery Boris impression “…Well, I’m not giving any figures.’ I thought, this is utterly cynical. He knows this policy is no good. No other organisation in the world would be able to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on something and have no benchmark of what success was. That is how low we have sunk. Politics has always been full of deception but it’s never been as blatant as it is now. You feel that they’re laughing at us, actually.
“It wasn’t hard to say that Brexit would a complete disaster. It wasn’t hard to say that Jeremy Corbyn would be a complete disaster. It wasn’t hard to say that Boris Johnson would be a disaster. You didn’t have to be some sort of mystic.”
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