Overview

• Vine recounts how David Cameron’s 2014 demotion of Michael Gove cut £36,000 from the Goves’ income and fueled financial tensions with the Camerons.
• Details of dinner parties describe Jeremy Clarkson mistaking Vine for a server and Boris Johnson’s socially awkward antics at Highgate gatherings.
• The memoir highlights how opposing stances on Brexit shattered the Gove-Cameron friendship as Gove backed Leave and Cameron campaigned for Remain.
• Vine shares personal impacts on her family, including their daughter’s anti-Tory bullying at school and death threats sent to their Kensington home.
• Early reactions to the memoir’s candid extracts have ignited debate over the emotional costs of political ambition ahead of its June 19 launch.