British Politics

Biographies

Carrie Johnson: Political Communications, Conservation and a Public Life Beyond Downing Street

Introduction Carrie Johnson spent several years working inside British politics before most of the public knew her name. She advised senior Conservative politicians, worked in party communications and eventually reached one of the Conservative Party’s leading communications positions. Yet much of the coverage that followed reduced her to something simpler: Boris Johnson’s partner, then his wife. That description is accurate,…