Rishi Sunak’s very racy taste in books revealed as he admits to reading raunchy erotic fiction
PENT-UP Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lets off steam by reading raunchy bonkbusters.
And his straight-laced image took a pounding as it emerged his go-to book is Jilly Cooper’s 1985 romp Riders.
The racy romance is about a wealthy toff frolicking with showjumpers in the Cotswolds.
One passage reads: “He undid the buttons of her shirt with trembling hands and buried his face in the billowy cleavage, breathing in her scent.”
Another describes an orgy as “a heaving anthill of arms and legs”.
The revelation was reported in weekly political and current affairs mag The Spectator.
The mag also said colleagues mock him because he likes to listen to music by Michael Buble and enjoys watching Netflix show Emily in Paris.
But when asked about the magazine’s revelations, Mr Sunak’s spokesman said it “hasn’t come up” in any of their conversations Married dad-of-two Mr Sunak has the nickname “Dishy Rishi” — and in an interview three years ago, 86-year-old author Cooper said she found Mr Sunak “quite attractive”.
News of Mr Sunak’s preferred reading material comes after a former aide to Boris Johnson revealed she was publishing her own raunchy book.
Cleo Watson’s Whips, to be published this month, features couples having sex in the Commons offices and at Chequers.
It has been described as a “riotous and all too believable” portrayal of sex and power at the heart of Westminster.