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”.