The book recounts Johnson's successful campaign for the seat of Henley in the 2001 general election.

[2] Will Buckley, reviewing the book in The Guardian, wrote that "it is yet another sign of Tory decline that Boris Johnson, brightest of the new intake, has decided to publish his political memoirs within weeks of arriving at Westminster".

Buckley was pessimistic regarding Johnson's future political career, writing that "[t]here will be no Cabinet post.

The crunch decision of his political career could well be having to choose between IDS and DD in a leadership contest".

But the months and years to come, as our man struggles over whether to accept a job as PPS to Bill Cash and frets over the decline of his once great party, should provide sufficient material to write further diaries which are even more amusing, and insightful, than Clark's.