Former Number 10 aide Cleo Watson is hoping that her highly anticipated novel based on her time working for Boris Johnson, out later this month, doesn’t lose her friends in Westminster. “I really made a big effort to make it clear that I’m not out to get anybody or cause any problems,” she told us this week. She thinks a few politicos will be “relieved” not to find themselves in it.
Many in politics are bracing for the release of Whips!, which is said to have quite a few political sex scenes. “There are some saucy bits,” she admits. “It’s more fun to write about sex than genuine intimacy”.
