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member of the audience at cliveden literary Festival asked historian andrew Roberts if he was ‘trying to undermine Boris Johnson’ by also writing a new biography of Winston churchill. Quick as a flash, Roberts retorted: ‘Of course not. Besides, of about 1,009 tales Boris told in his book only about two were true. ‘Why shouldn’t there be another churchill book? anyway, I’m the only one who has been allowed to look in the Queen’s archives to see her father’s war-time diaries.’