[753][needs update], Speaking in Northern Ireland, Johnson described himself as a "fervent and passionate unionist". He voiced support for Chinese president Xi Jinping's infrastructure investment effort, the Belt and Road Initiative, and promised to keep the United Kingdom "the most open economy in Europe" for Chinese investment. [187][188], In April 2006, the News of the World alleged that Johnson was having an affair with the journalist Anna Fazackerley; the pair did not comment, and shortly afterwards Johnson began employing Fazackerley. [552] Downing Street had said at the time that the full cost of the works had been met personally by the prime minister. Mary Raper (c1816-) 40. In July, he delivered a resignation speech, stating that ministers were "saying one thing to the EU about what we are really doing, and pretending another to the electorate". [699], Within Ukraine, Johnson is praised by many as a supporter of anti-Russian sanctions and military aid for Ukraine. [657], Johnson supported the European UnionMercosur Free Trade Agreement,[658] which would form one of the world's largest free trade areas. Johnson said Trump was "betraying a quite stupefying ignorance that makes him, frankly, unfit to hold the office of president of the United States",[298] becoming the first senior politician in the UK to declare Trump unfit for office, but rejecting calls for him to be banned from the country. [797] Johnson's weight has fluctuated throughout his career; he was considered obese in 2018 and overweight in 2020, and has spoken of making efforts to lose weight. [618] Johnson announced that had no intention of changing or resigning; senior Conservatives accused him of increasingly "delusional" behaviour. It's a very, very good thought." [734][738] Bloomberg News suggested that Johnson's interest in climate change increased after becoming prime minister, and suggested this could have been influenced by his wife Carrie Symonds and father Stanley Johnson, who are both environmental campaigners. Helen Jane Maunder Hitchcock (1832-1920) Johnson announced his resignation at 12.30pm. LONDON - For almost a decade, Alexander Temerko, who forged a career at the top of the Russian arms industry and had connections at the . [648] In 2021, the UK government under Johnson's leadership announced plans to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035. [542] On 28 April, the Electoral Commission announced it had opened a formal investigation into the allegations. Boris Johnson met troops at the Tapa military base in Estonia Following his speech, Mr Johnson was confronted by a Ukrainian who criticised Nato's response to the invasion, and asked why. [315] Conversely, former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith and UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage defended his comments. [400] A victim, anti-abuse organisations, a police chief and Shadow police minister Louise Haigh strongly criticised this. [664] Johnson disputed Mauritian claims to sovereignty over the Chagos. The UK Prime Minister, whose full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, comes from a fairly diverse background: his father's ancestry includes Turkish as well as European origins . [70], Johnson was popular and well known at Oxford. [272] In turn he remained largely supportive of his friends in the media among them Rupert Murdoch during the News International phone hacking scandal. [176][177], In November 2004, tabloids revealed that since 2000 Johnson had been having an affair with Spectator columnist Petronella Wyatt, resulting in two terminated pregnancies. Boris feels Jewish (sometimes) Johnson's maternal great-grandfather, Elias Avery Lowe, was a Moscow-born Jew born to a textile merchant. [192], In 2005, The Spectator's new chief executive, Andrew Neil, dismissed Johnson as editor. [583], In early February 2022, four of Johnson's senior aides resigned: Dan Rosenfield (chief of staff), Martin Reynolds (principal private secretary), Munira Mirza (head of policy) and Jack Doyle (director of communications). 58% believe Johnson should give up his seat in Parliament if an inquiry due in February 2023 finds he lied over Partygate. [692] On 14 February 2022, Johnson warned an invasion of Ukraine could take place within 48 hours. [632] It was further reported on 6 July that Johnson could face another confidence vote, with members of the 1922 Committee considering changing the rules as soon as that evening to allow this to happen. [186] He campaigned in 2006 to become the Rector of the University of Edinburgh, but his support for top-up fees damaged his campaign, and he came third. Hayton, Richard. [306][307] In the 2015 general election, Johnson was elected MP. Johnson tweeted that it was "absolutely disgraceful" and thanked the police for acting swiftly. [660][661] In 2022, his government introduced an asylum deal with Rwanda, whereby people entering the UK illegally would be sent to Rwanda. [328] Analysts saw the appointment as a tactic to weaken Johnson politically: the new positions of "Brexit secretary" and international trade secretary left the foreign secretary as a figurehead with few powers. [558] Many Conservative MPs refused to support the motion, and 13 defied a three-line whip to vote against it. [730], Johnson biographer Gimson wrote that Johnson is economically and socially "a genuine liberal", although he retains a "Tory element" to his personality through his "love of existing institutions, and a recognition of the inevitability of hierarchy". Johnson therefore became the first prime minister in British history to have been sanctioned for breaking the law while in office. Language. [576] There were immediate calls across the House for Johnson to resign, voiced mainly by the leaders of the opposition parties. Boris Johnson has told MPs he met Russian oligarch and ex-KGB officer Alexander Lebedev without officials present. 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[409] On 7June, Johnson formally launched his campaign, saying, "we must leave the EU on 31October. [60][61][62], Johnson won a scholarship to study Literae Humaniores at Balliol College, Oxford, a four-year course in the study of the Classics, ancient literature and classical philosophy. His father Stanley Johnson and his sister Rachael Johnson are also media celebrities, with regular appearances on television and radio. Two people, a man and a woman, were arrested after a traffic cone was thrown at police officers. [621], Government Deputy Chief Whip Chris Pincher resigned on 30 June 2022, saying he had "drunk far too much" the night before at the Carlton Club, a private members' club, in St James's, London, and having "embarrassed myself and other people". [567][568], On 10 January 2022, ITV News reported that a planned party had taken place on 20 May 2020, during the first lockdown. 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[264][265] Similarly, his claim that Metropolitan Police numbers had increased was characterised as untrue,[264] but the fact-checkers at Full Fact felt that both Johnson's and his critics' positions are defensible. The judge ruled the public had a right to know about Johnson's "reckless" behaviour. When interviewed in January 2019, he said he had not mentioned Turkey during the campaign. His deputy mayor Ian Clement was found to have misused a City Hall credit card, resulting in his resignation. Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said, "If the latest reports are true, it would mean that not only did the prime minister attend parties, but he had a hand in instigating at least one of them. [750] Johnson also stated his opposition to a referendum on the Brexit withdrawal agreement. "Conservative Party Statecraft and the Johnson Government", This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 20:55. We have wrapped a suicide vest around the British constitution and handed the detonator to Michel Barnier." MP Kim Leadbeater and Brendan Cox, the sister and husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, warned against politicians lending credence to far-right conspiracy theories. Thank you. Johnson gained a King's Scholarship to study at Eton College, a boarding school near Windsor in Berkshire. For other uses, see, Relations with police, finance, and the media, 2019 Conservative Party leadership election, Second term (December 2019 September 2022), Departure of Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain, 2021 Downing Street refurbishment controversy, Formally, Parliament is prorogued by the monarch (at the time Queen. In 2014, he acknowledged he was disputing a demand for capital gains tax from the US tax authorities on a property that he inherited in the United Kingdom,[785][786] which ultimately he paid. [8][9] His supporters have praised him for being humorous, witty, and entertaining,[10] with an appeal stretching beyond traditional Conservative Party voters, making him an electoral asset to the party;[11][12] and his critics have accused him of lying, elitism, cronyism and bigotry. [385][386][387][388], Johnson said that US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is a "moment of opportunity" for peace. [752] On 26 August 2019, Johnson said that Britain would not pay 39billion for the withdrawal agreement were the UK to leave without a deal on31 October. Born Alexander Boris DE PFEFFEL JOHNSON British Conservative Party politician, who has served as Mayor of London since 2008 Born on June 19, 1964 in New York City, New York, USA , United States (58 years) Born on June 19 42 Family tree Report an error Kemal Ali 1867 - 1922 Brun Winifred Emma Mary 1883 - 1909 Williams Stanley Fred 1880 - 1955 [570] Two eyewitnesses later alleged that Johnson and Symonds attended, contradicting Johnson's insistence in December 2021 that there were "no parties". [I am] free-market, tolerant, broadly libertarian (though perhaps not ultra-libertarian), inclined to see the merit of traditions, anti-regulation, pro-immigrant, pro-standing on your own two feet, pro-alcohol, pro-hunting, pro-motorist and ready to defend to the death the right of Glenn Hoddle to believe in reincarnation. [605], During the 2019 United Kingdom general election campaign and many times afterwards, Johnson pledged to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. [503] This resulted in a loss of confidence in the government and specifically its response to the pandemic, referred to as 'the Cummings effect' in a study in The Lancet. E-Book Overview. Later U.S. presidents ancestry can often be traced to ancestors from multiple nations in Europe, including England. [429][430] As of 2September 2019, three separate court cases challenging Johnson's action were in progress or scheduled to take place,[431] and on 11September, three Scottish judges ruled the prorogation of the UK Parliament to be unlawful. As a result, he earned the mistrust of many party members. Ali Kemal was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1867 to a mother from Circassia (now. [118] Johnson's column received praise for being ideologically eclectic and distinctively written, and earned him a Commentator of the Year Award at the What the Papers Say awards. Johnson has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015, having previously been MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008. Reply. [27] Stanley then took a job with a policy panel on population control, and moved the family to Norwalk, Connecticut, in June. [466][467], The COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a serious crisis within the first few months of Johnson's second term. 1.1Ancestry 2Personal life 3Political career Toggle Political career subsection 3.12008 London Mayoral election 4Mayor of London Toggle Mayor of London subsection 4.1Alcohol use ban on public transport 4.22008 Olympics 5MP (since 2015) Toggle MP (since 2015) subsection 5.1Brexit 5.2Foreign Secretary (2016-2018) [478] Reuters has reported that scientists are critical of Johnson both for acting too slowly to stop the spread of COVID-19 and for mishandling the government's response measures,[479] and Politico quoted Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty as saying that an earlier initial lockdown would have significantly lowered the death toll. [510][511][512] The government enacted a second national lockdown on 31October. [456] Later that day, 21 Conservative MPs, including the Father of the House and former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke, and another former Chancellor Philip Hammond, had the party whip withdrawn for defying party orders and supporting an opposition motion. [838] On 31 July 2021, it was announced that they were expecting their second child together after Carrie suffered a miscarriage earlier that year. 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[602] Shayan Sardarizadeh for BBC Monitoring said that the protest was an attempt to recreate the Canadian convoy protests in the UK, and noted that the activists' references to Magna Carta indicated that the protesters were members of the sovereign citizen movement. [208][209], After Johnson became mayor, those in City Hall who were deemed too closely allied to Livingstone's administration had their employment terminated. [313][314] In light of the remark, a King's College London student society revoked a speaking invitation it had extended to him. Jones was born in Wandsworth . [246][247] At the beginning of his tenure as mayor, Johnson announced plans to extend pay-as-you-go Oyster cards to national rail services in London. [707][708][709] As a former prime minister, Johnson, with his wife Carrie, had a place of honour at the state funeral on 19 September 2022. [238][239], Johnson retained Livingstone projects such as Crossrail and the 2012 Olympic Games, but was accused of trying to take credit for them. [754] He proposed building a bridge or tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland, but has since scrapped this initiative. [799], Johnson was baptised a Catholic and later confirmed into the Church of England,[53] but has said that his faith "comes and goes"[800] and that he is not a serious practising Christian. [141][142], In 2004, Johnson published an editorial in The Spectator after the murder of Ken Bigley suggesting that Liverpudlians were wallowing in their victim status and also "hooked on grief" over the Hillsborough disaster, which Johnson partly blamed on "drunken fans". [147] The local Conservative branch selected him although it was split over Johnson's candidacy. [159][160] After initially stating he would not, he voted in support of the government's plans to join the US in the 2003 invasion of Iraq,[150] and in April 2003 visited occupied Baghdad. Upon visiting shopkeepers and residents affected by the riots in Clapham, elements within the crowds booed and jeered him. The Liberal Democrat candidate, Helen Morgan, overturned a Conservative majority of nearly 23,000 to win the seat. [645][646], In November 2020, Johnson announced a 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution", which would include an end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030,[e] quadruple the amount of offshore wind power capacity within a decade, fund a variety of emissions-cutting proposals, and spurn a proposed green post-COVID-19 recovery. [679] Fisheries was a major topic of the negotiations. [288][289], Johnson had a close friendship with American technology entrepreneur, former DJ[290] and model Jennifer Arcuri, with The Sunday Times describing him as a regular visitor to her flat,[291] and implying they were in a sexual relationship. [634] As of May 2022, the government comprised 122 ministers. [248] A pledge in Johnson's election manifesto was to retain Tube ticket offices, in opposition to Livingstone's proposal to close up to 40 London Underground ticket offices. We have time in these negotiations. [219] The press also accused him of having an affair with Helen Macintyre and of fathering her child, allegations that he did not deny. Johnson won the vote, with 211 in favour and 148 against (59% in favour, 41% against). [633] By 4 p.m. on 6 July, there had been a total of 31 resignations. The Prime Minister famously has a huge family - he is. Spending six weeks campaigning, he attained 9,091 votes (23 per cent) in the 1997 general election, losing to the Labour candidate. [846] Having been a member of the Conservatives between 2008 and 2011, Rachel Johnson joined the Liberal Democrats in 2017. [565][566] Following a leaked video showing Downing Street staff joking about a "fictional party", at a press conference rehearsal recorded days after one alleged party took place, Johnson apologised for the contents of the video and suggested he had been misled but had now ordered an inquiry into whether a party took place and whether rules were broken. [476][477] This response is thought by some scientists to have contributed to the UK's high death toll from COVID-19, which as of January2021[update] was among the highest in the world in total and by population. 1billion of the money for hospitals was money that NHS providers had saved over the past three years and then previously been told they could not spend, rather than being new money. [848] Johnson also has two half-siblings, Julia and Maximilian, through his father's later marriage to Jennifer Kidd. [413] He also said he planned to raise the level at which low-paid workers start to pay National Insurance. Johnson attended Eton College, and studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. "[391], During trips to the United States as foreign secretary, Johnson had repeated meetings with Trump adviser and speechwriter Stephen Miller, which were held off White House grounds and kept quiet from May. [804][805], Johnson holds ancient Greek statesman and orator Pericles as a personal hero. [81] According to later biographer Sonia Purnell who was Johnson's Brussels deputy[92] he helped make Euroscepticism "an attractive and emotionally resonant cause for the Right", whereas it had been associated previously with the British Left. He also called Philip Hammond and the Treasury "the heart of Remain" and accused individuals of scaremongering over a Brexit "meltdown", saying "No panic. " I feel Jewish when I feel the Jewish people are threatened or under attack, that's when it sort of comes out," Johnson said. These proposals included face coverings to be required in more public settings, guidance to work from home wherever possible, and requirements of COVID-19 passports to enter a nightclub or other large venues. "[101], Johnson biographer Andrew Gimson believed these articles made him "one of [Euroscepticism's] most famous exponents". In June 2020, 30 British MPs including Labour, SNP and Liberal Democrats signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Johnson to act immediately on the ICJ ruling. [533][534] Johnson and Hancock denied some of Cummings' claims but declined to acknowledge others, such as Cummings claiming Johnson attempted to play down the threat of COVID-19 by saying it was "only killing 80-year-olds" during the pandemic's early stages. After moving to a new house in Islington, he built a shed on his balcony without obtaining planning permission; after neighbours complained, he dismantled it. A number of the presidents of the United States have English ancestry. Boris Johnson, in full Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, (born June 19, 1964, New York City, New York, U.S.), American-born British journalist and Conservative Party politician who became prime minister of the United Kingdom in July 2019. [500][501][502] Calls for Johnson to dismiss Cummings came from MPs both within and outside the Conservative Party. [303] The vehicles proved unsellable and were eventually sold for scrap in 2018 at a 300,000 loss. [598] The claim linking the failure of the CPS to prosecute Savile to Starmer originated in 2018 on the right-wing Guido Fawkes blog, and was amplified in April 2020 by the far-right fake news website Politicalite. [126], Johnson was given a regular column in The Spectator, sister publication to The Daily Telegraph, which attracted mixed reviews and was often thought rushed. [378], In a September 2017 op-ed, Johnson reiterated the UK would regain control of 350m a week after Brexit, suggesting it go to the National Health Service (NHS). [216][217][218], During his first administration, Johnson was embroiled in several personal scandals. [446], Johnson appointed his Cabinet on 24July 2019,[447] dismissing 11 senior ministers and accepting the resignation of six others. Boris Johnson (Q180589) Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson has said if Ukraine is invaded by Russia it could bring about "the destruction of a democratic state" and "the shock will echo around the world". According to HM Land Registry documents, he bought the four-bedroom property with his then-girlfriend Carrie Symonds in July 2019. [231][232][233], Johnson made no major changes to the mayoral system Livingstone developed. [411][412], Johnson initially pledged to cut income tax for earners of more than 50,000 by raising the 40% tax threshold to 80,000, but backed away from this plan in June 2019 after coming under criticism in a televised BBC debate. Filed July 19, 2019, 9 a.m. GMT. [497] After a fortnight at Chequers, he returned to Downing Street on 26April and was said to be chairing a government COVID-19 "war cabinet" meeting. Dominic Raab was moved from Foreign Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, replacing Robert Buckland in the latter role. [173] Duncan Smith was removed from his position in November 2003 and replaced by Michael Howard; Howard deemed Johnson to be the most popular Conservative politician with the electorate and appointed him vice-chairman of the party, responsible for overseeing its electoral campaign. [713], In January 2023, a Savanta ComRes poll for The Independent found 63% of voters do not want Johnson to return as prime minister. [417], The members' vote closed on 22July. [35] Having few or no friends other than their siblings, the children became very close. [607] In July 2022 the National Audit Office announced an investigation into the affordability of the pledge and raised concerns about the claim that the hospitals will be "new". ", "Conservative moderates plan to take back control of Boris Johnson as prime minister", "Boris Johnson: Classic Tory or Political Maverick? 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