With his father Stanley Johnson on the campaign trail in Teignmouth, Devon in 2005
19 December 2012
Another Johnson tome is on its way. Stanley Johnson, father of Mayor Boris, is thinking about a sequel to his lively 2009 memoir Stanley, I Presume.
“It will be called Stanley, I Resume,” he told me in Gerry’s Club in Dean Street at the launch of John Bird’s book The Necessity of Poverty.
Publisher Naim Attallah talked about Big Issue founder Bird’s war against “how the rich exploit poverty, enabling and encouraging the rest of us to live off the poor”. Bird said: “We must give the poor a hand up, not a handout. Let’s get off the backs of the poor. If the Miliband family had been patronised by the welfare state when they came here as refugees from the Nazis, Ed wouldn’t be leading the Labour Party today.”
