The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, promises to give a lot to talk about in the coming weeks. The former Downing Street leader will publish this October 10 his first autobiographyin which he will address the ins and outs that surrounded the British Executive during his mandate that pass between real issues to the management of the pandemic.
Johnson’s memoirs, titled ‘Unleashed’ (translated into Spanish as ‘Unleashed’) promises to “break the mold of the modern memorial genre of prime ministers,” according to the publisher Harper Collins, thus defining said publication as “the political memories of the century” the quintessential british tabloid Daily Mail.
The former minister’s autobiography extends into nearly 800 pages made up of secrets, anecdotes and stories that promise not to leave the public indifferent and to shake, to a certain extent, the British political scene. Among its lines, as the British media has advanced, there are jokes and anecdotes that portray the political figure that Johnson was.
Brexit, ‘partygate’ o Buckingham Palace
In the case of Brexitone of the burning issues in British politics in recent times, the former prime minister acknowledges that he signed a protocol with Ireland in which he did not trust, in which he placed his trust with the idea that the European Union would not look at this phenomenon with concern, but, far from it, an unprecedented gap opened between Brussels and London.
In another order of ideas, and about the scandal that most marked his mandate at the head of the country, the cause of ‘partygate’ in the middle of the pandemic, Johnson affirms in his memoirs that he was wrong to apologize for these parties prohibited in Downing Street, labeling them as such of “humiliating” and “pathetic.”
However, it is what was revealed about Queen Elizabeth II that could raise more acrimony at the time of its publication. According to the former prime minister, the British monarch would have suffered a bone cancer in the last months of his life. A theory that was never confirmed or denied by Buckingham Palace.
Among other anecdotes that have been read between the lines and have been advanced by Daily Mailtalks about his meeting, back in 2017 when he was Foreign Minister, with the Israeli president, Benjamin Netanyahu, talks about how, when he went to the bathroom, later “They found a microphone in ‘the thunder box’”that is, in the toilet.
Johnson revealed plans against the Netherlands during the pandemic
These revelations come a few days after learning about one of the crusades that Johnson was about to undertake during his tenure in Downing Street. Also in his memoirs, he reveals that he considered doing a “water raid” towards the Netherlands to steal vaccines against covid in the face of the crisis in the middle of the pandemic.
According to their argument, the EU would have made a “malicious” use of AstraZeneca doses in 2021which is why he ordered “to work on launching an aquatic raid on a warehouse in Leiden, Netherlands, and take what was legally his and what the United Kingdom needed so much.”
The ‘number two’ of the British Ministry of Defence, Lt. Gen. Doug Chalmersexplained to the Prime Minister that the plan was “certainly feasible” and that inflatable boats would be used to enter the navigable Dutch canals. “They would meet at the target, go in, get the detained merchandise, leave in an articulated truck and arrive at the channel ports” of the English Channel, according to Johnson.
However, Chalmers warned Johnson that it would be difficult to carry out the operation undetected, so London would “have to explain why they were invading a NATO ally.” Therefore, Johnson concluded that “he obviously knew he was right (…), but he didn’t want to say it out loud: it was all nonsense.”
It is worth remembering against this backdrop that Johnson is the first British minister to receive a criminal code for actions during his leadership in the ‘partygate’ case.
