Johnson ‘squared up’ to the King over Rwanda plan, claims former press chief

Pair disagreed over reports King Charles called deportation plan ‘appalling’, says ex-prime minister’s communications director

Boris Johnson confronted King Charles, “essentially squaring up” to him for describing the Rwanda asylum policy as “appalling”, according to No 10’s former director of communications Guto Harri.

The pair are said to have had a disagreement at a Commonwealth summit in the east African country in June 2022 after reports that the monarch, who was then Prince of Wales, described the plan to deport people travelling across the Channel to Rwanda as “appalling”.