Boris Johnson settles scores with Emmanuel Macron whom he describes as a “real nuisance” in his memoirs

GREAT BRITAIN – “A real nuisance”. Two years after leaving 10 Dowing Street, Boris Johnson settles scores with some of his international contacts. In his memoirs entitled « Unleashed » (“Unleashed”) whose Daily Mail publishes extracts this Monday, September 30, the former British Prime Minister unleashes his blows against Emmanuel Macron, in particular.

“Although Macron was personally charming, and although we often agreed on important issues, he really meant what he said when he said the UK should be punished” for Brexit, writes Boris Johnson. 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.

BoJo accuses Macron of using the subject of immigration

“On certain subjects, I fear I suspected him of being a real nuisance”he says about the latter. 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 at least possible to me that he used the problem” et “discreetly allowed a sufficiently large number of migrants to cross” the Channel “to drive the British people crazy, and undermine one of the most important issues of Brexit, which was to regain control of our borders”writes Boris Johnson.

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 “which 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 become a columnist for the tabloid The Daily Mailwhile being paid tens of thousands of euros for conferences. The thunderous former British conservative leader published on October 10, in which he recounts his experience in politics, in particular his time in Downing Street from 2019 to 2022, marked by negotiations with the European Union on Brexit and the Covid pandemic. -19.

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