Ebury Press acquires comedian Rosie Holt's debut

Ebury Press has acquired comedian Rosie Holt’s debut book, Why We Were Right: A Catalogue of Conservative Successes.  

Commissioning editor Suzanne Connelly acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit in an exclusive submission. The book will publish in July 2024, ahead of the next UK election. 

Holt is best known for her viral internet sketches on X/Twitter in character “as a hapless, desperately loyal Conservative MP”. “The book is written from the perspective of Rosie Holt MP, and sets out to explain how, over the last 14 years in government, the Tories made Britain great again” the publisher said. “From getting Brexit done and bending the Ministerial Code, to rowing back on climate change policies and voting in Liz Truss as leader, Why We Were Right explains why the so called ‘scandals’ or ‘controversial’ decisions of the government that have been derided by the Left and the ‘woke’ media were completely right (and intentional) all along.” 

Connelly said: “As evidenced by the numerous outcries online calling for her immediate resignation from politics, Rosie has perfected the art of political satire. Her sketches got me through the dark days of lockdown (just when we thought politics was beyond parody) and I’m absolutely thrilled to be working with her on her hilarious debut. Why We Were Right will have you laughing (or crying) all the way to the polling booth."

Holt said: “My MP alter ego is someone who will defend absolutely anything the government does in anyway possible, but usually she only gets to do this for two minutes on the internet or an hour tops on stage. Therefore to sit down and write a whole book of terrible tory excuses was a grim treat. I perversely enjoyed going through all of our government’s most catastrophic failures and arguing they were brilliant. Plus I got to flesh out the character; from her home life with her son and put upon dog Nigel, to her secret yearning for Northern lefty hard man Andy Burnham. I hope everyone enjoys this book as much as I did writing it, and that they don’t find themselves softening towards voting tory as a result.”