Hilary Mantel says she is ashamed of Britain and is moving to Ireland

Dame Hilary Mantel has said she is “ashamed” of Britain and plans to move to Ireland to “become a European again”.

The author made the announcement during an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

She also criticised the monarchy, claimed Boris Johnson is unfit for office and said the UK is an “artificial and precarious construct”.

The Booker Prize winner said: “The popularity of monarchy as an institution is something that baffles me.

By Leah Sinclair.

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