THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'This book is the antidote to naivety that our political class needs. Anyone, in fact, who has strong views about how society should be run would benefit from reading it, because every political ambition costs money and as Johnson writes, "someone has to pay for all this"... The story he tells may leave you reeling... Johnson's buoyant yet acerbic style will keep you engaged. The sobering realities he lays out are peppered with entertaining asides. Sunday Times

'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times

'A treasure trove of killer facts' Guardian

'Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works' Laura Kuenssberg

We think we have no idea where our money goes. Mostly when we say that we mean our own bank account, but realistically we also have no idea how the country's money gets spent. Well, Johnson does know, he is the director of the IFS, an economic research institute after all. Luckily for us, he decided to lay it out in this book. It's a surprisingly readable, if not a 'nice' read. A lot of it is a bit depressing really. But it's stuff everyone should know, or it has no chance of getting better.