Meet Stanley Johnson, Boris’ father
Stanley Johnson did write a novel called ‘The Virus’ A post on Instagram claims that Stanley Johnson, father of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wrote a novel called ‘The Virus’ in 1982 and includes a synopsis of the book. This is correct. The book was initially published in 1982, and was republished this summer during the coronavirus pandemic. The novel was originally titled ‘The Marburg Virus’, and loosely draws on a real outbreak of a virus in Marburg, Germany, in 1967. The outbreak was associated with laboratory…