{"product_id":"assault-on-truth-pa","title":"Assault On Truth Pa","description":"\u003cb\u003e* THE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP TEN BESTSELLER *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Peter Oborne wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Political Lying\u003c\/i\u003e, looking at the growth of political falsehood under John Major and Tony Blair, he believed things had got as bad as they could be. With the arrival of Boris Johnson at No 10 in 2019 began a new and unprecedented epidemic of deceit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Assault on Truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, a short and powerful polemic, Oborne shows how \u003cb\u003eBoris Johnson lied\u003c\/b\u003e again and again in order to secure victory so he could force through \u003cb\u003eBrexit\u003c\/b\u003e in the face of parliamentary opposition. Johnson and his ministers then lied repeatedly to win the general election in December 2019. The government’s woeful response to the \u003cb\u003ecoronavirus pandemic\u003c\/b\u003e has generated another wave of falsehoods, misrepresentations and fabrications. Oborne has brought the book fully up to date, to the end of Johnson's time in No 10.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The scale and shamelessness of the lying of the Johnson administration far exceeded the lying about \u003cb\u003eIraqi weapons of mass destruction\u003c\/b\u003e and other issues under \u003cb\u003eTony Blair\u003c\/b\u003e. This book argues that the ruthless use of political deceit under the Johnson government was part of a wider attack on civilised values and traditional institutions across the Western world, especially by \u003cb\u003eDonald Trump\u003c\/b\u003e in the USA. The Johnson and Trump methodology of deceit is about securing power for its own ends - even when they get exposed for lying, they shrug it off as a matter of no consequence. Oborne assesses whether their time in power has tainted their successors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt matters because all Western institutions are built around the idea of integrity and accountability. This means that an assault on truth is an assault on the rule of law, state institutions and the fundamental idea of fairness, and even democracy itself. \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312433308030,"sku":"NW9781398523388","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781398523388.jpg?v=1778528894","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/assault-on-truth-pa","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}