Of all the walls on which you would have wanted to be a fly, the one to choose would be in the room in the margins of a UK-Africa investment summit in Docklands in January 2020 where Boris Johnson spent 20 minutes trying to talk Prince Harry out of moving to the US.
In a tasty appetiser for his memoir, extracts of which are to be published in the Mail tomorrow, he describes “a ridiculous business... when they made me try to persuade Harry to stay. Kind of manly pep talk. Totally hopeless”.
