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Andrew Holgate
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“Absolutely abysmal...so bad, so boring, so mind-bogglingly banal that if it had been written by anybody else it would never have been published.”

I can’t remember a more damning review, ever, in The Sunday Times than this by @dcsandbrook

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“The really astonishing thing, though, is that Rees-Mogg’s prose barely reaches undergraduate level.”
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“On and on it goes, in the same plodding, Pooterish style. Did Rees-Mogg really write this? Or did he get the work-experience boy to do it? In any case, the overall effect is soul-destroying.”....

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“There have been many books on the Victorians, but surely none as badly written. After a few chapters, I yearned to turn the page and find that the publisher had printed a bit of Boris Johnson’s knock-off life of Churchill by mistake.”

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“I closed this book with a very different image of Rees-Mogg from the one I had at the beginning. Gone was the pinstriped, Latin-quoting reactionary. In his place stood a man with all the wit, style and literary élan of a Bulgarian boiler salesman.”

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