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Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, Bodley Head, £25
IF you are miserable at the state of British politics, this is not the book to cheer you up.
It implicitly poses a question: what do you call someone driven entirely by a near-psychotic hatred of the socialist left, who is scornful of trade unions, is prepared to lie and deceive to achieve political objectives, has “no regard for politicians” and panders to every prejudice to win support?
The bad news is that the answer is: the man running the country.
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