It’s not just MPs who are abandoning faith in Boris Johnson. The embattled PM appears to have alienated the entire state of Ghana in his latest efforts to save his faltering premiership. Last summer the Tory leader was all smiles with Ghanian President Nana Akufo-Addo, as the two joked around at the global education finance summit in London. But, in an attempt to throw some ‘red meat’ to restless Conservative backbenchers, Johnson has managed to damage relations with the influential West African nation.
For today the Ghanian ministry of foreign affairs has issued a statement rebutting press reports suggesting that the country could process and resettle migrants which have arrived here illegally in the UK. The proposed policy was one of several briefed to the press as part of ‘Operation Red Meat’ to shore up Johnson’s flagging support within Parliament. It was intended to be a response to the small boats crisis which saw some 28,000 migrants successfully cross the Channel in 2021.
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