Boris ‘clashed’ with King Charles over Rwandan politics | UK News

Guto Harri, who served as No 10 communications director under the former prime minister, claimed Mr Johnson told him he was quite tough on the then prince.

Mr Johnson called his former ally account inaccurate, with a source saying he regrets any comments about conversations with the Royal Family.

The disagreement arose from Charles’s reported criticism of the Rwandan agenda during a meeting in the country’s capital, Kigali, during a Commonwealth summit last June.

At the time, Mr Johnson described his chat with Charles as a good old chinwag that covered a lot of ground.

However, Mr Harri suggested the meeting was considerably less friendly than suggested behind closed doors.

Writing in the Daily Mail, the former BBC journalist said: I went pretty hard at it, he told me at the time, basically facing the prince and confronting him with what he had said, as unelected royalty, about the actions of a democratically elected government. .

Prince Charles has been arrested. He had obviously expressed some criticism, and although he tried to play it down, Boris pointed out the obvious, (saying): If you didn’t say it, we both know your people might call the newspapers and kill the story. The fact that they didn’t speaks volumes.

Mr Johnson was one of several former Prime Ministers who attended the Kings Coronation over the weekend.

Elsewhere, Mr Harri claimed Boris and Charles struggled to get along for years after the politician was late for a meeting when he was London mayor but Rwanda was the last straw. water.

Relations never fully recovered and Charles will be relieved that Boris left No 10 before taking the throne, he added.

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