Peter Oborne is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster
who has worked for various newspapers, including
the Spectator, the Daily Mail and the Daily
Telegraph, where he was the chief political commentator until his
resignation from the paper in 2015. He now writes for Middle
East Eye. He is the author of numerous books, including The
Rise of Political Lying (2005), Wounded Tiger (2014) and the
Sunday Times bestseller The Assault on Truth (2021). He lives in
Wiltshire.
‘A clinical and merciless account of Johnson’s mendacity… in a sane
world it would be a political obituary… What makes Oborne’s dossier
so gripping is that he and Johnson share the same cultural and
professional milieu… Johnson’s lies are no secret, though they have
rarely been as well documented as they are in The Assault on
Truth… Oborne offers a stirring rage against the dying of the
establishment light.’
*Guardian*
'An exceptional dissection of Boris Johnson’s lying government . .
. You really do need to read it.'
*Owen Jones*
‘His scathing insider’s analysis of that culture here is required
reading for anyone interested in that world of anonymous sources
and private briefings. '
*Observer*
'For left-wing readers, Oborne’s book is valuable not just as the
charge sheet against Johnson by someone who really gets him, but as
a surprising glimpse at how our own politics look, through the most
sympathetic conservative eyes.'
*Tribune*
'Oborne’s short, readable, accessible and damning book is a record
of a life spent in the shadowy world that natural liars inhabit,
where truth is a tradeable commodity... The lies [are] catalogued
in Oborne’s sober, remorseless book. We knew about many of them
before, but putting them all together shows us the kind of man our
prime minister is.'
*The New European*
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