I fully understand that as I am a Remainer and my wife Mary is a Leaver. The Johnsons are riven by Brexit like so many other families up and down the land.

The author makes a an allegorical tale of the biblical story of Cain and Abel. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. In this case, it is not just Boris and Jo at loggerheads, but their father, Stanley, a man who has always been fiercely ambitious for his children, and their sister Rachel, who I suspect adores them both. Charnwood, 1982 - Capitalists and financiers - 759 pages. What is it about brothers that makes it so captivating? Could it be that brothers are always in competition from the day they are born?įor me, this has become a family saga. For the rest of us, there is something undeniably compelling about two brothers falling out so spectacularly, just as we were gripped back in 2010 when Ed Miliband unexpectedly snatched the Labour leadership by a tiny majority (less than one per cent) from his older, better-known, better-looking brother, David, whose rise to power had seemed so assured. What is an intensely private family matter is being played out on the front pages. Over sixty years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have.

At this particular time, for your younger brother to choose the national interest ahead of family loyalties cannot but be lethal. Two menambitious, powerful, ruthlessare locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. It is certainly the last thing the Prime Minister needs. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer 4.2 (152) Paperback (Mass Market Paperback) 10.99 Paperback 10.99 eBook 9. I predicted this week was going to be hell, but Jo Johnson’s resignation still shocked me.

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