Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries book has officially flopped – clearly, I’m a Celebrity wasn’t the fix-all he’d hoped | The Independent



Hancock’s book, ā€˜The Pandemic Diaries’, sold a humble 3,304 copies in its first week on shelves

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Paul · @bacchus
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This is as good a takedown of 's self-serving as you'll find.

Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries are a delusional piece of self-aggrandising fan fiction - New Statesman
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ā€œWhy would a politician who left office in disgrace after lying to his family and the country try to rehabilitate himself with the public by publishing a memoir in a form that is, in itself, a lie?ā€

In the retrospectively constructed ā€œentriesā€ of , casts himself as the hero of both the Covid crisis and his love life.

ā€œIt’s pathetic,ā€ writes senior associate editor Rachel Cunliffe. Read her review: newstatesman.com/culture/books

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