Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has put forward several lurid claims and elaborate conspiracies about those at the top of government in her new book The Plot: the Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, which is published on 9 November. They are based largely on anonymous sources, as well as her own hunches and observations and some on-the-record interviews including with Johnson himself. Here are the main claims.
Boris Johnson believes the Conservatives are ‘drifting to defeat’
