Boris Johnson's new year off to flying start as he talks up trade with Africa post-Brexit before meeting Prince Harry

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Tim Baker20 January 2020
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Boris Johnson got his new year off to a flying start as he attended the UK-Africa Investment Summit.

The Duke of Sussex and Mr Johnson are understood to have met in private on the margins of the summit, in a room upstairs at the event in London’s Docklands.

It is understood no aides were present from either side. The sixth in line to the throne shared an animated conversation with Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the Pavegen stand, a company that converts footsteps into energy
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Mr Johnson told those at the meeting in Greenwich, southeast London, that he was hoping post-Brexit Britain would be a big trading partner with Africa.

He then took to the floor of the Intercontinental Hotel London for some action-snaps.

Speaking of his plans for the future, the PM said: “We want to build a new future as a global free-trading nation, that’s what we will be embarking on on January 31."

He added: “But I want to intensify and expand that trade in ways that go far beyond what we sell you or you sell us.

“I’ve just told President (Yoweri) Museveni of Uganda that his beef cattle will have an honoured place on the tables of post-Brexit Britain.”

The PM was meeting presidents from Rwanda, Ghana and Nigeria at the summit, and was due to have talks with the premiers of Egypt and Kenya at Downing Street on Tuesday.

Mr Johnson looked particularly happy while at visit the Pavegan stand - which harnesses energy from people walking over panels.

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