Guto Harri, Number 10's former director of communications, has now told LBC that his intention in speaking about his time in Downing Street as part of a podcast series was to put 'partygate in perspective'. We reported earlier about claims that Boris Johnson 'went in quite hard' against King Charles over the Rwanda scheme. He added that he now thought it was not realistic for Mr Johnson to return to power imminently, but suggested that there was a possibility it could happen after the next general election. But the chancellor beat him to it in a way and brought the whole show down.' So frankly, to cut to the chase, if things hadn't turned out as they did last July, I think over the summer we'd have had a reshuffle and Rishi would have been offered a different job should we say.'Īsked if Mr Johnson was preparing to move Mr Sunak from the chancellor job, he said: 'Yes. He did want to bring the bread and butter benefits of Brexit to ordinary punters. 'Boris was desperate to give something to the party, did not want to put up corporation tax.

'The tension between them was building,' Mr Harri said. He said that there was a 'fundamental disagreement of policy between the two of them'. Mr Harri, who served as Number 10's director of communications under Boris Johnson, suggested that Rishi Sunak would likely have been shuffled out of the chancellor job if Mr Johnson remained in post. More now from Guto Harri, who has been discussing his podcast Unprecedented with LBC this morning.

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