“Although Macron was personally charming, and although we often agreed on important issues, he really meant what he said when he said that the United Kingdom should be punished” for Brexit, writes Boris Johnson.
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He describes at length his exchanges with European leaders such as former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, whose accent he mocks when he speaks English. “On certain subjects, I fear I suspected him of being a real nuisance,” he says of the latter.
“He used this issue to drive the British people crazy.”
He criticizes Emmanuel Macron in particular for his attitude in the thorny issue of migrants who illegally cross the Channel to reach the United Kingdom from France, a very sensitive subject on the British side. “It seemed to me at least possible that he used the problem” and “discreetly allowed a large enough number of migrants to cross” the Channel “to drive the British people crazy, and undermine one of the most important issues important aspects of Brexit, which was to regain control of our borders”, writes Boris Johnson.
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The former Prime Minister still evokes the anger of the French President when the British AstraZeneca developed one of the first vaccines against Covid-19, and congratulates himself on having caused France to suffer a setback by concluding with the States -United and Australia a defense alliance which derailed a multi-billion euro agreement between Paris and Canberra. An alliance “that was really going to be an uppercut for the French,” writes Johnson.
Since leaving Downing Street in the summer of 2022, Boris Johnson has notably reconverted into a columnist for the tabloid The Daily Mail, while being paid tens of thousands of euros for conferences.
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