Conservative readiness to indulge Johnson is no measure of his reputation in the country, but the leadership contest is not a national election. This book explores a young boys struggle to gain attention from his parents as he is repeatedly told 'not now, Bernard'. The monster lives Bernard's life, but more badly behaved, for the rest of the day and, at bed time, tries to tell Bernard's mother he is a monster but she replies "Not now, Bernard".

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Business investment has been flat since the referendum, in large part because the political climate has been so unpredictable. I was reminded of it by Rafael Behr's opinion piece in today's Guardian, 31 August 2022, six days before Johnson actually resigned as Prime Minister and Liz Truss took over, "Brexit is the monster under the bed Liz Truss is desperately trying to ignore" - see below.Bernard is so fed up, that he goes into the garden, gets eaten by a monster, and his mum and dad still don't notice!

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All Bernard wanted to do was engage in conversation with his mum and dad, but they kept brushing him off.He goes outside eventually by himself and that doesn't go to plan, as his parents are simply to busy to listen to their son. Labour, unwilling to adopt the former stance and afraid of being cast in the latter one, says nothing meaningful on the subject. In The Monster and the Teddy Bear (1989) Angela learns to rethink her opinion of monsters after a fierce monster causes chaos without the babysitting noticing. Bernard’s parents are just too busy and distracted to take notice of Bernard even when he is replaced by a monster that has eaten him.

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g. Comic Life) to turn the story into a comic strip, or to create a story in one of Bernard’s comics. The next resident of 10 Downing Street will find the garden crawling with monstrous economic and political menaces. This text repeats the phrase 'not now, Bernard' throughout the book which as a reader made me feel sorry for Bernard because he wasn't being listened to by his parents. That volatility – two general elections and three changes of prime minister in six years – is a function of the struggle to turn an ideal Brexit, nurtured in the parochial Eurosceptic imagination, into a reality-based Brexit involving other countries and real people’s jobs. For young children, however, (who the book is aimed at due to its simplistic nature) I feel that the book could be quite upsetting if understood, especially for children in a similar situation.As Sheila Hancock wrote in The Independent, this book “demonstrates that parents can be naughty too”. Bernard’s got a problem because he’s found a monster in the back garden but his parents are too preoccupied to notice him let alone heed his warnings. The rest of the class as the audience could think of questions to ask each character, whilst the children ask questions the teacher could scribe key phrases and responses on the whiteboard.