WHAT’S ON PM’S READING LIST?

FOREIGN policy appears to be at the forefront of Boris Johnson’s mind as more tough Brexit talks loom – if his reading list is anything to go by. Books piled on a trolley in his office include Modern Diplomacy, by international relations expert Professor Ronald Barston, and Charles Moore’s acclaimed biography of Margaret Thatcher.

And maybe he’s seeking some Brexit inspiration in motivational tomes that include Be The Lion, which offers advice on ‘how to overcome big challenges and make it happen’.

The Good State by ardent Remainer AC Grayling and Why Europe Should Become a Republic by German thinker Ulrike Guérot are perhaps more surprising additions.

Unfair Game by Lord Ashcroft, exposing South Africa’s captivebred lion industry, and an autobiography by Kurdish fighter Diana Nammi also await the PM’s attention.

Mr Johnson is a successful author himself. His four books include The Churchill Factor, about the war-time leader, and 2004’s Seventy-Two Virgins, about the efforts of a hapless, bicycle-riding, tousled-haired MP to foil a terror attack…