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The political analysis in The Plot has more puppetry than Tracy Island. Oliver Dowden (whom Nadine Dorries succeeded as Culture Secretary) is a “puppet” of Mr Smith. Lee Cain (the Downing Street director of communications) was “a total puppet” of Mr Cummings. Rishi Sunak was “their dream puppet”. But a question occurred to her about Michael Gove and the conspirators: “Is he their puppet or a puppeteer?” That was the threshold – 15 per cent of the Conservative parliamentary party – which was needed to trigger a vote of no confidence. That vote was indeed triggered, in June 2022. The bad people are the ones who are incapable of love and who are English. They are predators on the poor, and to Dorries the bad thing about being poor is vulnerability. Boris told Dorries: “We should have moved on from him much, much earlier… We needed a strong team and Vote Leave had been a winning team. It was always a bit odd though how Lee Cain and many of the people working in No. 10 always referred to Cummings as ‘the Dark Lord’. I could never get my head around that one. Quite odd. But he just wasn’t that man. He was very good at nihilism and breaking things down but not so great at building or repairing things, or at delivering on instructions. We didn’t make enough progress on anything. He didn’t make things happen; he wasn’t doing his job.”

Everything feels wrong with the story. Her characters are all stereotypes, from the almost saint like parents of one family to the slattern and wasteful ne'er-do-well of the lazy and wasteful neighbours, with their dirty, often beaten and neglected children; from the kindly, honest if frightened of the Catholic Church hierarchy nun to those nuns in Ireland who are evil incarnate; from the 'simple minded' servant girl to the nosey neighbours; etc., etc. The register of interests also reveals she employs her daughter as a parliamentary assistant, but that’s by the by. Dorries quotes a source saying: “He [Gove] has been a big part of the plan to nuke Boris forever, and here he was in no way benefiting from all of his plotting and meddling. He’s also been building up Kemi Badenoch as the next leader of the Conservative Party, because that was part of the plan and it still is. He’s been mentoring Kemi for a long time, possibly, originally, at Dougie’s behest.” Dorries writes: “Oliver Dowden was invariably the first [to try to speak at Cabinet]. I have never heard anyone talk for so long and say so little. Oliver used a hundred words when ten would do, and when he finished speaking I wasn’t the only one left inwardly groaning and wondering at the greatest mystery of the Cabinet: how a man of so little discernible talent had risen so far.The same source claimed Johnson and Sunak had dinner together the night before Sunak resigned in July 2022. The source said: “Of course the next day Rishi blindsided Boris and resigned. Yeah, genuinely, even for a cut-throat world that was very shitty behaviour.”

One critic stated that her first novel was 'vacuous'. I would have wished that this second in the trilogy was the same. Rather it took content which she didn't have the skill to use properly. So let us be clear that Nads has scrupulously substantiated her claims by interviewing key “sources”. It is unfortunate that so many of them are anonymous, but that is an inevitable feature of dealing with a conspiracy as sinister as this one. One of these sources she codenames “Moneypenny”. Another is disguised as “M”. You may sense a theme here. Two others she calls “Bambi and Thumper”. Connoisseurs of the adversaries of James Bond, to whom Boris Johnson does indeed bear a striking resemblance, will know Bambi and Thumper as henchpersons of Spectre, an organisation that Ernst Stavro Blofeld made almost as scary as The Movement. While she’s right to see something deeply undemocratic in Cameron, May, Johnson and Truss all departing office without the voters getting a say, Dorries omits to explore Johnson’s own starring role in kneecapping the first two. Does the movement control him too? Could he be Dr No? Makes you think.As a distillation of what Team Boris argues when asked how the man who won an 80-seat House of Commons majority was out of office within three years, it takes some beating. We know, too, that 148 Tory MPs then voted no confidence in Mr Johnson, because the result was announced by the 1922 Committee. It amounted to 41 per cent of Tory MPs. Because of my own family heritage, I enjoy and seek out books set in working-class Liverpool. That is how I discovered The Four Streets. I have not read any other of Nadine Dorries' works, and I had no idea what to expect with this one. But Nadine Dorries is also a published author who has written more than a dozen novels since 2014 and has sold more than 2.5 million copies, according to Head of Zeus, her publisher. He might have been about to have sex for the first time in almost two years, he might have been angry and have lost all reason, but he wasn’t going to spill the Guinness.”



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