This week it's all about Boris. What a man. He makes us laugh, he makes us cry, he makes us wonder whether our future Prime Minister could really be the man who did this. What would happen if Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in 2016? In an exclusive extract from Prime Minister Boris (now available for a special price of £8.50) Sam Macrory told us how Boris could set out on his quest, and courtesy of The Bigger Book of Boris (currently available for a special price of £5.00) we also gave you our favourite Boris quotes (e.g. 'We will demonstrate that we are the party that cares about the older generation by propelling a man who is so full of vim he will give me a thrashing on the squash court and has nine-and-a-half grandchildren’ - Trying to get his dad elected in Teignbridge, 2005).
Wondering whether Boris could be the next occupant of 10 Downing Street has also got us thinking about other political possibilities...
What would have happened if...
Richard Nixon had become President of the United States in 1961?
Rupert Murdoch had not bought The Times in 1981?
The UK had not gone to war in Iraq in 2003?
In Prime Minister Boris, enter a world of political counterfactuals, things that never actually happened ... but could have. In a series of twenty-two studies, distinguished commentators, including journalists, academics and former MPs, consider how things might have turned out differently over a century of political history. From Lloyd George and Keynes drowning at sea in 1916 to Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister in 2016, fictional accounts interweave with political expertise to make you wonder: ‘What would have happened if...?’