Boris Johnson lands £500k advance for his eagerly-awaited memoir covering his time as Prime Minister

The ex-Tory PM’s latest entry in Parliament’s Register of Members’ Interests says he acquired £510,000 as an advance on an upcoming book.

The autobiography is set to speak of his dramatic spell in No 10, covering the pandemic, the Partygate scandal and the fighting in Ukraine.

Publishers HarperCollins has obtained the rights.

Labour PM Tony Blair reportedly acquired £4.6 million for his book A Journey.

Former David Cameron was said to have earned £1.5 million for his biography, ‘For The Record’, while Gordon Brown is understood to have acquired more than £400,000 for ‘My Life, Our Times’.

Ex-health secretary Matt Hancock publicised his own interpretation of the Government’s handling of the pandemic late last year with his Pandemic Diaries.

Correspondent Boris Johnson has already authored several books, including the international bestseller The Churchill Factor, a bio of the wartime leader, and a comic political book, Seventy-Two Virgins.

Boris Johnson reportedly acquired a £500,000 advance for a biography of the bard, entitled Shakespeare: The Riddle of Genius.

The book was due to be published in 2016 but has yet to hit the shelves.

As a backbencher he’s also significantly topped up his MP earnings by travelling the speaking circuit, declaring more than £1 million in speaking fees since leaving office in September.

Like we need to hear more of his drivel.

I wasn’t a big Boris Johnson fan, but then I’m not a big Conservative fan either, and since Brexit, he seemed to have lost his way. He did absolutely nothing about immigration, and he got trodden all over by SAGE during the pandemic, pushing us into lockdown after lockdown until the Christmas parties exposed all of it as a sham when they suddenly had no fear of COVID despite pushing the fear narrative on to us.

And what about his near-death COVID experience? Was that exaggerated – probably! Was it used to push the lockdowns – probably, and if that isn’t shameful, I don’t know what is, and we should all have an honest conversation with ourselves about how Brexit’s turned out.

Boris Johnson didn’t get Brexit done, he just shovelled it through Parliament and depended on the media to peddle the lie to the ignorant, and what Boris Johnson’s memoir should be called is ‘How I ruined a country’.

And the reason people like Boris Johnson want to be Prime Minister, however dysfunctional and inefficient they are, it’s just a door opener to future obscene wealth, which is disgusting – like most of them quite frankly.

Well, it should be a pretty brief biography, nothing much to write about here – fought for fish, decorated a house, went on holiday, locked down the country, had a few drinks, book finished! And it just goes to show what this Government is all about – they’re all in it for themselves, not the people, and if this book is being written by Boris Johnson then I’ll assume it’ll be in the fantasy section.

I wonder what’s going to be in this book of his. Perhaps it will say that he lied to get into power and carried on once he got in, just like every other Prime Minister. It might even say that he took the country into a recession and gave all of his friends millions while doing it and that he frittered away a majority government but did strengthen the hotel trade and now most of them are perpetually full of boat people.

All that I can say is that when Boris Johnson shuffles off this mortal coil, his epitaph will say ‘Here I lie’.