Boris Johnson has claimed he considered giving permission to raid a warehouse in the Netherlands to collect coronavirus vaccines during the pandemic.
In his forthcoming memoir, he said he met senior military officials in March 2021 to discuss the plan, which he admitted was “crazy”.
Another excerpt from his upcoming book published by the Daily Mail describes Mr Johnson trying to persuade the Duke of Sussex not to move to the US.
He said Downing Street and Buckingham Palace requested to speak to Harry in January 2020, hours after he and Meghan announced their plans to step away from royal life.
According to Mr Johnson, who was Prime Minister at the time, there was “a fool’s errand…a manly pep talk as he tried to persuade Harry to stay. It was completely hopeless,” the Daily Mail reported.
The two spoke for 20 minutes on the sidelines of the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London’s Docklands.
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Meanwhile, the latest excerpt says Mr Johnson is writing about the time during the pandemic when AstraZeneca tried to export vaccines from the Netherlands to the UK, to no avail.
At the time, the AstraZeneca shot was at the center of a dispute between channels over exports.
He wrote: “I have commissioned work on whether it is technically possible to raid a warehouse in Leiden, Netherlands, from the water and seize something that is legally ours and that Britain desperately needs.” are.
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He believed the EU was treating the UK “with malice and malice” because the rollout in Europe was slower than in the UK.
Military leaders told Johnson that a plan to use rigid rubber boats to navigate the Dutch canals was “certainly feasible,” according to excerpts.
But the official said Britain “needs to explain why it is effectively invading a long-standing NATO ally.”
“They wanted to prevent us from getting 5 million doses of the vaccine, and yet there was no real sign that they wanted to use the AstraZeneca vaccine themselves,” Johnson wrote.
