Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed a deal to jot down a memoir about his time in 10 Downing Road. The e book has no confirmed title or publication date however has been described as a “prime ministerial memoir like no different”. A brand new Categorical.co.uk ballot, nevertheless, has proven that readers are divided over whether or not they are going to learn Mr Johnson’s story.

The memoir will likely be printed by HarperCollins and recount his time in workplace, with Arabella Pike, publishing director at William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins UK saying will probably be a “prime ministerial memoir like no different”.

She added: “I look ahead to working with Boris Johnson as he writes his account of his time in workplace throughout a number of the most momentous occasions the UK has seen in latest instances.

The New Statesman reported on Tuesday, January 24, that it’ll take the type of a diary. Alongside unique extracts, they report that it has been provisionally titled “Mendacity in State”, and may very well be launched earlier than the top of the yr.

The quantity Mr Johnson was paid for the e book has not been shared by HarperCollins however trade insiders informed The Guardian final yr that the previous Conservative Occasion chief might count on “a excessive six-figure or perhaps a seven-figure deal”.

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In a ballot that ran from 3:30pm on Tuesday, January 17, to 1pm on Tuesday, January 24, Categorical.co.uk requested readers: “Will you learn Boris Johnson’s memoir?”

General, readers had been divided with 52 per cent (1,212 folks) answering “no” they might not, in comparison with 47 per cent (1,098 folks) who stated “sure” they might learn his memoir.

An additional one per cent (27 folks) stated they didn’t know both manner.

Dozens of feedback had been left beneath the accompanying article as readers shared their ideas on Mr Johnson’s memoir.

An in depth MP ally of Mr Johnson informed The Telegraph final week: “Boris Johnson lives inside numerous folks’s heads rent-free so writing a e book will likely be alternative to place his model of occasions on the desk for the document.”

Earlier than turning into a Tory MP, Mr Johnson labored as a journalist for The Day by day Telegraph and was the editor of The Spectator from 1999 to 2005.

He has already printed 11 books together with The Churchill Issue which explored the profession and success of Winston Churchill, and the novel Seventy-Two Virgins.

Different UK Prime Ministers have written memoirs about their time in workplace with Sir Tony Blair securing a deal of round £5million and David Cameron reportedly earned £1.5million for his memoir.