Trump asked May at debut meeting why Boris Johnson was not PM, book says
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#6465W)
Former president reportedly asked indelicate question at White House in January 2017 when Johnson was foreign secretary
In his first White House meeting with a major foreign leader, Donald Trump asked Theresa May: Why isn't Boris Johnson the prime minister? Didn't he want the job?"
At the time, the notoriously ambitious Johnson was foreign secretary. He became prime minister two years later, in 2019, after May was forced to resign.
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