OPINION - The Plot by Nadine Dorries review: a conspiratorial mess that fails to exonerate Boris Johnson
So, what’s the story about Nadine Dorris’s The Plot, subtitled, The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson – just so you know, the subtitle sums up the gist. The former Culture Secretary – and the joke there was on us – gave up her parliamentary seat in August to write this much-anticipated book, which entailed interviewing no fewer than 50 terrifically important people, almost all of them anonymous. “Each person I interviewed … told me the same thing, that I was uncovering something dark and deeply undemocratic”.