In one more unlikely-sounding second for British politics, Rishi Sunak is reportedly a fan of Jilly Cooper’s erotic romance novel Riders – maybe the very definition of the Nineteen Eighties “bonkbuster”.
Whereas a main minister’s best-loved tome is normally a worthy affair, the present resident of No.10 apparently prefers one thing a bit extra steamy – not less than that’s based on the Spectator.
It’s value noting the Spectator is well-sourced with regards to Sunak: the journal’s former political editor is now one of many PM’s closest Downing Road aides (and the most effective man at his marriage ceremony). So it’s not come from nowhere.
Whether or not Riders is definitely considered one of his favourites, and never an try and humanise the geeky one-time tech bro (he has previously expressed a really particular fondness for Mexican Coca-Cola) is anybody’s guess.
Cooper’s oeuvre captures the drama and extra of Britain’s prosperous elite by way of her Rutshire Chronicles sequence. They do loads of horse driving, amongst different issues.
The motion is focussed on galloping aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black – later a Tory minister. Maybe extra well-known is the ebook’s authentic cowl of a feminine backside clad in white jodhpurs and a male hand.
“Intercourse and horses: who might ask for extra?,” famous the Sunday Telegraph in 1985, because the novel went on to change into a runaway success.
