Boris Johnson considered raiding a Dutch warehouse to source COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic | British News

Boris Johnson claims he considered authorizing a raid on a warehouse in the Netherlands to source COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic.

In his upcoming memoirs, he described a meeting with senior military officials in March 2021 to discuss the plans, which he admitted were “crazy.”

Another extract from his forthcoming book, published by the Daily Mail, describes Mr Johnson trying to persuade him Duke of Sussex not to move United States.

He said Downing Street and Buckingham Palace asked him to speak to Prince Harry in January 2020, just hours after he and his wife made the announcement Meghan planned to retire from royal life.

According to Mr Johnson, who was prime minister at the time, there was “a ridiculous affair…when they got me to persuade Harry to stay. A kind of male encouragement. Totally hopeless,” the Daily Mail reported.

The men met for 20 minutes on the sidelines of a British-African investment summit in London's Docklands.

Meanwhile, the latest excerpt describes Mr Johnson writing about a point during the pandemic when AstraZeneca “tried in vain” to export the vaccine from there to the UK Holland.

At the time, the AstraZeneca vaccinations were at the center of a cross-Channel dispute over exports.

He wrote that he had “commissioned some work to examine whether it might be technically feasible to launch a water attack on a warehouse in Leiden in the Netherlands and take what was rightfully ours and the UK desperately needed.” “.

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He believed the EU was treating the UK “with malice and malice” as the rollout in Europe was slower than in the UK.

The excerpt said military chiefs told Mr Johnson the plan was “certainly feasible” to use rigid inflatable boats to navigate Dutch canals.

But the senior official said the UK needed to “explain why we are actually invading a long-standing NATO ally”.

“They wanted to prevent us from getting the five million doses, and yet they showed no real signs of wanting to use the AstraZeneca doses themselves,” Mr. Johnson wrote.