No Way to Run a Country: An Outsider’s Journey into the Heart of Our Broken Politics

Brutally honest, insightful and darkly funny, No Way To Run A Country is former Cabinet minister Johnny Mercer’s account of a tumultuous nine years in Parliament, under five prime ministers, including Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. In this deeply personal memoir he reveals what Westminster and government is really like . . . and why, for all our sakes, we need to see change. Johnny, who fought in Afghanistan in 29 Commando Regiment, was fired up with anger at the poor treatment of veterans by successive governments.Determined to do something about it, in 2015 he stood for election in his beloved city of Plymouth.This political outsider was on a mission to change the country. Johnny’s experiences in Westminster veer from hilarious to infuriating as he refuses to accept the gap between what governments say and what they do.As a result he is threatened, briefed against and sacked as a minister - twice!Politics is a blood sport, whatever your party. He sees a system riven with infighting, in