Boris Gets Deleted For Shameless Promotion Of His Book

Further tensions between Charles and Johnson followed over his government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, which Charles thought “appalling”. He feared it would mar the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in the Rwandan capital Kigali.

At the summit Johnson privately took the heir to the throne to task for “shitbagging” his flagship plan.

“Did you actually criticise government policy?” he asked. Johnson told an aide that Charles replied: “Well maybe, inadvertently, without intention I may have said something.”

Charles revealed that he wanted to respond to the widespread fury about colonialism unleashed by the Black Lives Matter campaign, by acknowledging the evils of slavery. Johnson, despairing that even the monarchy had been captured by “woke” ideology, was blunt: “I wouldn’t talk about slavery if I were you, or you’ll end up having to sell the Duchy of Cornwall to pay reparations to the people who built the Duchy of Cornwall.”

When Johnson emerged from this encounter he told Guto Harri, his director of communications, “I went in quite hard.”

Charles ignored the prime minister, telling the summit: “I cannot describe the depth of my personal sorrow at the suffering of so many as I continue to deepen my own understanding of slavery’s enduring impact.”

A relationship fundamentally soured by prorogation was now in freefall. “I don’t think relations ever fully recovered,” Harri said.

‘Elizabeth the Great’
Johnson resigned in July 2022 and was replaced by Liz Truss. Less than a week later Britain’s longest-serving monarch passed away.

The Queen died at 3.10 p.m. on September 8. Johnson issued an eloquent statement and then gave one of his best speeches in the Commons, seeking to popularise the name “Elizabeth the Great”.

Missing the chance to make the speech from the dispatch box by three days was exquisite torture. “He totally adored her,” said one former No 10 adviser. However, a Tory close to the royal household suggested mischievously that “Her Majesty wanted to hang on long enough to see Boris off the premises”.

On Saturday, September 10, privy counsellors — including all living former prime ministers — gathered at St James’s Palace for the accession council ceremony, where Charles read a formal notice of the Queen’s death and Penny Mordaunt, just appointed lord president of the council, read a list of the new king’s duties. As archbishops, judges and peers rubbed shoulders and the ousted Tory prime ministers made awkward small talk, a cabinet minister offered his condolences to one of the Queen’s closest aides. “It must have been very difficult,” he said.

The courtier explained that the Queen’s final days had been happy ones. She had enjoyed a gathering of her family and treasured staff two evenings before her death. The courtier confided that when Boris Johnson was mentioned, the Queen, mischief in her eye, had said: “Well at least I won’t have that idiot organising my funeral now.”

This, it seems, was said to amuse but it was a widely shared sentiment in the royal household.

Out by Tim Shipman

….need a cup of tea now: only seem to be able to copy a few paragraphs at a time!