Boris Johnson is going to witness how his best kept secrets will soon come to light through the book
The Gambler
, an unauthorized biography written by investigative journalist Tom Bower, who has already been in charge of undressing Tony Blair or the Prince Charles of England at other times.
Based on his talks and conversations with friends of the Prime Minister, including his mother and first wife, Bower draws the British politician as a lonely and autonomous boy marked by the divorce of his parents: the politician, MP, Conservative, World Bank official and now
reality TV star
Stanley Johnson and painter Charlotte Johsnon Wall.
A separation that, in turn, was marked by the alleged violent nature of his father, who on one occasion broke his mother's nose, according to
The Mail on Sunday
.
"It broke my nose, it made me feel that I deserved it," the book includes statements by Charlotte, Boris Johnson's mother, who described her marriage to the Prime Minister's father, Stanley, as "violent and unhappy."
According to the British newspaper, this incident happened in the 1970s, when Charlotte suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder and, on one occasion, Stanley pushed her and broke her nose when she fell to the ground.
The prime minister's father, now 80, lamented the accident that kept his then wife hospitalized for a few days and denied that he had been violent on other occasions.
However, the author of this unauthorized biography believes that this incident and the troubled relationship of his parents defined the character and personality of Boris Johnson.
“Boris was concerned about the fate of his mother… He did not trust those who defended his father and did not consider him violent.
He became a loner.
To mask the misery and pain, he demanded attention.
But behind Boris's bravado there is deep unhappiness, "writes Tom Bower in its pages.
According to this account, the prime minister grew up unable to forge close relationships with other men, so he turned to women for his soul mate.
Something that explains the prolific love life of Johnson, who bared his heart to many of them with letters and poems and even threatened to commit suicide so that they would not abandon him.
The
affairs
of the former mayor of London are well known, although three formal relationships are known to him.
His first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, was a fellow at Oxford University and he married her in 1987, when Johnson was just 23 years old.
His marriage ended due to Johnson's adultery with whom in 1993 he became his second wife, the lawyer Marina Wheeler, mother of four of his children and from whom he separated in 2018, after years of infidelities and follies.
And finally his current partner and mother of his sixth child, Carrie Symonds, 23 years younger than the prime minister and with whom he has already announced his engagement plans.
Boris Johnson has another son as a result of his extramarital slip with the real estate developer Helen Macintyre.
Boris's adultery is like his father's.
The cause of his continuous romances were the lack of love for his wife, boredom, selfishness and insecurity ”, confides his mother, Charlotte, to the biographer.
"Getting married was the end of the relationship rather than the beginning," says his first wife Allegra Mostyn-Owen in
The Gambler
.
The book also details Boris Johnson's intense desire to become Prime Minister, competing with fellow countryman David Cameron and fighting George Osborne in what is described as the transfer of the infamous antics of the Oxford University Bullingdon Club to the high command. tory.
Bower recounts Boris's examination of conscience on Brexit, his arrival in Downing Street after Theresa May was run over, as well as the drama of the covid-19 pandemic.
All political events are held against the backdrop of constant and exhausting emotional drama in his private life, but Tom Bower concludes on a positive note: as prime minister, says the author of the book, he still has the opportunity and desire to fundamentally improve people's lives.