We spoke to author Tom Bower who has written a new book on Boris Johnson called The Gambler. It is based on a wealth of new interviews and research, this is the deepest, most rounded and most comprehensive portrait to date of the man, the mind, the politics, the affairs, the family - of a loner, a lover, a leader

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