Boris Johnson gave Jacob Rees-Mogg 'carte blanche' to be 'pain in the backside for the Treasury and Rishi Sunak', says former No10 comms chief Guto Harri
It came after the former PM had already clashed with the then Prince Charles over the Rwanda migrant policy.
"And he warned the Prime Minister that on Brexit he thought the government had got to the point where it was trying to keep the UK deliberately, in what he called, the 'lunar orbit of the EU'. He warned that the Chancellor Rishi Sunak had 'gone native'. Boris asked him to give it all a 'massive kick.'
"It's not a good idea for an unelected royal to be at odds with the elected government of the day, even if people might agree with the unelected royal. But on this one, the polling and the focus groups were pretty clear," Mr Harri said. "And this, believe it or not, was on the eve of a summit in of all places on God's earth, Kigali in Rwanda, and the two of them were meant to share a platform with each other.
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