Rishi Sunak owns up to being a fan of Jilly Cooper novels

The premier curate has admitted reports of him being a instrumentality of the racy books penned by Jilly Cooper CBE are true.

Appearing connected ITV’s This Morning, Rishi Sunak name-checked immoderate of her novels, but joked it was “unclear however that has emerged”.

He told the presenters: “You request to person escapism successful your life.”

Cooper, present 86, is simply a erstwhile paper writer who aboriginal wrote fiction, non-fiction and children’s books.

Riders is 1 of her astir celebrated novels. Written successful 1985, the communicative of Infidelity and betrayal successful the Cotswolds was the archetypal of 10 successful the Rutshire Chronicles series, and was besides adapted for TV.