Rudd’s book set to reveal no love lost with Boris

Tin hats on! it promises to be the first revelatory memoir of the Boris Johnson premiership. Former Home Secretary Amber Rudd is writing a book which will lift the lid on sexism in politics, Brexit rows and how MPs work together.

Provisionally entitled Don’t Be Put Off, it will also be a call to arms for young people to get more engaged in politics.

‘it’s a blast at the snowflake generation for not getting more involved,’ i’m told.

There is certainly no love lost between Remainer Rudd (pictured) and Brexiteer Boris.

She campaigned for Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, famously telling a live TV debate that Johnson ‘is the life and soul of the party, but he isn’t the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening’.

Rudd quit Boris’s cabinet as Work And Pensions Secretary last September and resigned the Conservative whip in protest against his decision to expel 21 Tory MPs for rebelling against the prospect of a no-deal

Brexit. Last October she announced that she would be standing down as MP for Hastings and Rye at the General Election. Rudd’s literary agent, Caroline Michel, says the book will be a humdinger. ‘it will surprise people,’ she tells me. it’s not what they will expect and it will be a brilliant book.’ Rudd, 56, was once married to the writer and critic, the late AA Gill, and has already shown some literary prowess herself. in 2008, two years before she entered Parliament, she entered a sexual health poetry competition.

Her ode to safe sex — Loving You is So Exciting — was such a hit with the judges that she won joint first prize in the over25s category: a £50 voucher donated by the local chlamydia screening clinic.

She is so well-connected that back in the nineties, film director and producer Richard Curtis recruited her to supply extras when he was making the Four Weddings And A Funeral classic.

Rudd arranged for posh friends to be paid £100 a day to mill around in ‘smart wedding outfits’ during film shoots.

Besides re-inventing herself as a writer, former investment banker Rudd is also following her brother into PR.

She has been hired as a senior adviser by Teneo — a global consulting, strategy and communications firm — to offer ‘strategic advice’.

Brother Roland founded PR company Finsbury in 1994.