BORIS Johnson’s biographer has claimed his wife Carrie is to blame for his downfall.
Tom Bower also said the Prime Minister’s failure to put a good team around him when he entered Number 10 left him doomed.
He told GB News: “Well, I think that his problem is he didn’t create his own luck. What he failed to do was to arrive in Downing Street with a good team. And without a good team, he could do nothing.
“He also had, unfortunately, a wife that didn’t help him overcome all the hurdles of being Prime Minister. And I think that his appointment and continuation with Dominic Cummings was in the end, became a poison chalice. But the real problem is that Carrie, COVID and his character in the end undid him. He made a terrible mistake of lying about partygate, and then (there was)Chris Pincher.
“And if he’d had very strong support staff around him, he would have been able to manage the crises, but he just didn’t have them. He didn’t appoint the right people. And that was unfortunately, part of his downfall.
“He had to make the appointments and he should have chosen very serious people. But instead, he chose people who were not going to really help him. And unfortunately, he relied too much on Carrie’s advice. And that in the end was bad advice.”
The final leadership battle between Conseravtive leader candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss ends on Monday 5 September, after a summer of campaigning.
Bower believes Liz Truss will take the leadership seat beating Rishi Sunak at the final result, as he explained: “I say it with much reservation, but I think in the end, you’ve got to go for Truss, because she is experienced. And I don’t think Sunak is a campaigning politician.
“I think she’s got four weeks to prove herself. She’s got a honeymoon. And she’s got to hit the ground running and show that she can change all the atmosphere -the bad atmosphere – around Boris’s government.”
Tom Bower has previously profiled the former Mayor of London and Conserative Leader in his unaothorised biography book ‘Boris Johnson: The Gambler’, released in 2020.
