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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah and agency

King ‘left squirming’ in Rwanda row with Johnson, claims former PM’s aide

King Charles, then Prince of Wales, greets Boris Johnson at the unveiling of the UK Police Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, Staffordshire.
Boris Johnson, then UK prime minister, ‘went in hard’ when confronting the monarch, who was then Prince of Wales, according to Guto Harri. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

King Charles was left “squirming” after Boris Johnson confronted him over reported criticisms of the government’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, the former prime minister’s aide has claimed.

According to Guto Harri, who was No 10’s director of communications at the time, Johnson “squared up” to the then Prince of Wales at a Commonwealth summit in the east African country in June 2022 after reports that the royal had described the plan to deport people travelling across the Channel to Rwanda as “appalling”.

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