A Downing Street insider has claimed Boris Johnson ‘squared up’ to King Charles III in a row over the Rwanda policy. Guto Harri, who served as No 10’s director of communications under the former prime minister, said that it was Boris Johnson and the King who had a “bit of a showdown” over the Rwanda policy.
He has alleged that Mr Johnson confronted the King, “essentially squaring up” to him, for describing the Rwanda asylum policy as “appalling”. “They did have a bit of a showdown, but for the reason that the man who is now King criticised what was A, extremely popular government policy, B, very central government policy and C, on the eve of the two of them going to the very place at the heart of the story, Rwanda.
“So it wasn’t a fight. Obviously they didn’t square up to get in the ring. But Boris, rightly, challenged the unelected royal at the time.”
