Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed a deal to write a memoir of his tumultuous time in office, which began with a vow to “get Brexit done” and ended in scandal and resignation.
Publisher HarperCollins said Monday that the as-yet-untitled book will be a prime minister's memoir "like no other".
Johnson became prime minister in July 2019, scored a huge electoral victory in December, and took the UK out of the European Union the following year.
He led Britain through the COVID-19 pandemic - which landed him in intensive care - and the early months of the war in Ukraine but was embroiled in scandals about his finances and ethics.
He was forced to resign in July 2022 after dozens of members of his cabinet quit in protest.
No publication date has been set for the book, which will be published in the UK by Harper Collins imprint William Collins. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.
“I look forward to working with Boris Johnson as he writes his account of his time in office during some of the most momentous events the United Kingdom has seen in recent times,” Arabella Pike, publishing director at William Collins, said.
Johnson, a former journalist has written several books, including The Churchill Factor, about wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
In 2015, he signed a deal for a book about William Shakespeare, initially to be published in 2016. It was later shelved indefinitely.
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