The prime minister has admitted studies of him being a fan of the racy books penned by Jilly Cooper CBE are true.
Showing on ITV’s This Morning, Rishi Sunak name-checked a few of her novels, however joked it was “unclear how that has emerged”.
He informed the presenters: “It’s essential to have escapism in your life.”
Cooper, now 86, is a former newspaper journalist who later wrote fiction, non-fiction and youngsters’s books.
Riders is considered one of her most celebrated novels. Written in 1985, the story of infidelity and betrayal within the Cotswolds was the primary of 10 within the Rutshire Chronicles collection, and was additionally tailored for TV.