Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number Ten
From the ingeniously quick-witted John Crace comes a satirical memoir from the eyes of his beloved dog, Herbie. It started when a chance encounter with Sadiq Khan’s Labrador landed Herbie a job working as a special advisor to Ed Miliband in 2014. Then he was summoned by David Cameron to work on the Remain campaign in the EU referendum.
He experienced the pain of working with Theresa May; was sacked and then rehired by Boris Johnson to advise on Covid; was at Balmoral when the Queen died; had a ringside seat for Liz Truss; was fired by Rishi Sunak and then latterly taken on by Keir Starmer. This is the story the politicians didn’t want you to know.
John has been The Guardian’s political sketch writer for the last ten years and is one of the paper’s most loved columnists.
