He admitted the plans were “nuts” and detailed meeting with top military leaders in March 2021 for his planned memoir.
Another passage from his soon-to-be published book, obtained by the Daily Mail, talks about Mr. Johnson’s attempts to dissuade the Duke of Sussex from moving to the US.
Hours after Prince Harry and wife Meghan announced they were leaving the royal life, he claimed Downing Street and Buckingham Palace requested him to talk with Prince Harry in January 2020.
Then prime minister Mr. Johnson claimed that there was “a silly business… when they had me try to do it.
The men had a 20-minute meeting in London’s Docklands at an investment forum between the UK and Africa.
The most recent excerpt, meantime, talks of Mr. Johnson writing about a time during the pandemic when AstraZeneca was “trying, in vain,” to ship the vaccine from Holland to the UK.