Anthony Seldon – 2023 Comments on Boris Johnson’s Vision Being “His Own Advancement”

The comments made by Sir Anthony Seldon in his book “Johnson at 10 – The Inside Story” published in May 2023. The text was quoted by the Guardian newspaper.

To those many people who say, ‘Of course he believed in Brexit’, the evidence is absolutely clear. From the beginning it was striking that he believed that there was a cause far higher than Britain’s economic interests, than Britain’s relationship with Europe, than Britain’s place in the world, than the strength of the union. That cause was his own advancement.