He calls it a desperate attempt to stop the Megxit and until now I had never talked about it. The former prime minister Boris Johnson reveals in the Daily Mail who asked him to have a “charlamanly motivational” with him Duke of Sussexto try to convince him of the mistake of leaving the United Kingdom and starting a new life in the United States with his wife Meghan Markle.
Without mentioning names, Johnson assures that officials of the Buckingham Palace and of Downing Street They thought that if there was anyone capable of dissuading Diana’s young son, it was the controversial Tory politician.
“It was a ridiculous thing… when they made me try to persuade Harry to stay. A kind of male motivational talk. Totally useless,” Johnson acknowledges.
“It was a kind of totally useless male motivational talk”
The until now unknown talk is one of the chapters that reveals, Unleashedthe memoir of the former British premier that is generating a lot of expectation. Johnson explains that the meeting took place in January 2020 after Harry and Megan had announced their decision to “stop being royals.”
The meeting barely lasted 20 minutes and took place during a UK-Africa investment summit. It occurred without the presence of attendees who could witness the desperate attempts to avoid Megxit and only a few hours after a speech by Harry, in which the prince claimed to feel “great sadness” about leaving the United Kingdom, but that he felt that “I had no other option.”
“Boris managed to achieve Brexit, but not even he could stop Megxit” are the words of a friend of the politician, who prefers to remain anonymous, and which has been reported by the Daily Mail.
“Harry was not willing to change course”
Days later Harry flew to Canada where Meghan was waiting for him with her son Archie. The couple who finally settled in California, where they still continue, have never commented on the matter.
For now, Boris Johnson’s memoirs, which the British tabloid is previewing in chapters, threaten to overshadow the next annual conference of the Conservative Party, which will be held from September 29 to October 4 in Birmingham and where the Tories will have to elect a new leader to succeed Rishi Sunak.
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