Boris Johnson's 'hopeless' bid to persuade Prince Harry to stay

Getty ImagesBoris Johnson tried to persuade Prince Harry not to leave his royal life in the UKBoris Johnson was part of a last-minute attempt to discourage the Duke of Sussex from leaving his royal life in the UK, according to the former prime minister’s soon-to-be-published memoir.Johnson delivered what he calls a “manly pep talk” to Prince Harry on the sidelines of a UK-Africa investment summit in London in January 2020, according to Unleashed, the memoir being serialised in the Daily Mail.It was a “totally hopeless” task, suggests Johnson, with Prince Harry already on the verge of leaving the country.The man who was famous for Brexit could not make the young prince a remainer.Getty ImagesThe meeting with Boris Johnson was the night after Harry’s speech about leavingThis encounter did not prove to be a meeting of minds, but Johnson’s account does now explain what at the time was reported as a 20-minute one-to-one “catch-up” without aides present, between the then-prime minister…