LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed a contract to write memoirs of his tumultuous tenure, which began with a vow to “get Brexit done” and ended in scandal and resignation.
Publisher HarperCollins said Monday the as yet untitled book will be a prime ministerial memoir “like no other”.
Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019, won a major election victory in December and led the UK out of the European Union the following year. He guided Britain through the COVID-19 pandemic – which put him in intensive care – and the first months of the war in Ukraine, but became embroiled in scandals over his finances and ethics.
He was forced to resign in July 2022 after dozens of members of his government resigned in protest.
No release date has yet been set for the book, which is published in the UK by William Collins, the Harper Collins imprint. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
“I look forward to working with Boris Johnson as he writes his account of his tenure during some of the most momentous events that the UK has witnessed in recent times,” said Arabella Pike, Publishing Director at William Collins.
Johnson, a former journalist, has written several books about wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, including The Churchill Factor. In 2015 he signed a contract for a book about William Shakespeare, originally scheduled for publication in 2016. It was later postponed indefinitely.
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