[824] In September 2021, after years of obfuscation, Johnson stated that he had six children, thereby denying the existence of any further illegitimate children. Johnson added that "it is not too late to save Brexit. [624] On 3 July 2022 six new allegations against Pincher emerged, involving behaviour over a decade. February 28, 2023 4:40 am CET. I saw the whole [European Union] change. [724], According to political scientist Richard Hayton, Johnson's premiership centred around Brexit, which served as a "national cause". [665], Johnson said in July 2019 that his government would be very "pro-China" in an interview with the Hong Kong broadcaster Phoenix TV. [844] His younger siblings are Rachel Johnson, a writer and journalist; Leo Johnson, a partner specialising in sustainability at accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers;[845] and Jo Johnson, ex-minister of state and former Conservative MP for Orpington, who resigned from his brother's government in September 2019[459] and is now a member of the House of Lords. [296] The IOPC issued its report in May 2020, concluding that, although there was no basis for any criminal charge, there was evidence that the close relationship between Johnson and Arcuri had influenced decisions by officials. [817] Five weeks later, Wheeler and Johnson's first child was born. 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[216][217][218], During his first administration, Johnson was embroiled in several personal scandals. [554][555], At the Conservative party conference in October 2021, Johnson was criticised by Simon Wolfson, chairman of Next plc, a major party donor and Brexit supporter. [466][467], The COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a serious crisis within the first few months of Johnson's second term. According to HM Land Registry documents, he bought the four-bedroom property with his then-girlfriend Carrie Symonds in July 2019. [402] In August, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACoBA) reported that this employment was a breach of the Ministerial Code. Under the influence of this milieu and of his wife, Johnson moved in a more liberal direction on issues like climate change, LGBT rights and race relations. Mary Raper (c1816-) 40. [88] His articles appealed to the newspaper's conservative, middle-class, middle-aged "Middle England" readership,[89] and were known for their distinctive literary style, replete with old-fashioned words and phrases and for regularly referring to the readership as "my friends". Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, better known as Boris Johnson, was born on June 19th, 1964 to Stanley and Charlotte Johnson in New York City. [448][449] The mass dismissal was the most extensive postwar Cabinet reorganisation without a change in the ruling party, exceeding the seven Cabinet ministers dismissed in the "Night of the Long Knives" of 1962. Johnson confirmed this in a 2007 interview for the Jewish Chronicle. [663] In February 2019, the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued an advisory opinion stating that the UK has an obligation to bring to an end its administration of the Chagos archipelago as rapidly as possible. Johnson confirmed this in a 2007 interview for the . [640] During his final Prime Minister's Questions Johnson signed off by saying "hasta la vista, baby". [165] His 2001 book, Friends, Voters, Countrymen: Jottings on the Stump, recounted that year's election campaign,[166] while 2003's Lend Me Your Ears collected together previously published columns and articles. [381] "[337] A senior official in Obama's government suggested Johnson's appointment would push the US further towards Germany at the expense of the Special Relationship with the UK. His deputy mayor Ian Clement was found to have misused a City Hall credit card, resulting in his resignation. [746][747][748], In 2018, during the Brexit negotiations, he called for Britain to leave the Single Market[746] and advocated a more liberal approach to immigration than that of Prime Minister Theresa May. [426] The Queen at Privy Council approved prorogation later the same day, and it began on 10September, scheduled to last until 14October. [256] In August 2008, Johnson broke from the traditional protocol of those in public office not publicly commenting on other nations' elections by endorsing Barack Obama for the presidency of the United States. In July 2020, Boris Johnson made his younger brother Jo a peer. [161] In August 2004, he backed unsuccessful impeachment procedures against Prime Minister Tony Blair for "high crimes and misdemeanours" regarding the war,[162] and in December 2006 described the invasion as "a colossal mistake and misadventure". [123], Contemplating a political career, in 1993, Johnson outlined his desire to stand as a Conservative candidate to be a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 1994 European Parliament elections. ", "Climate change: The science briefing that convinced Boris Johnson", "Boris Johnson's climate change "scepticism" is an embarrassment to London's scientists", "What Does Boris Johnson Really Think About Climate Change? [751], On 19 August 2019, Johnson wrote a letter to the EU and asked for the removal of the "backstop" accord, which had previously been agreed and signed by Theresa May during her premiership. The prime minister has demeaned his office. [356] Johnson promised while in Northern Ireland that Brexit would leave the Irish border "absolutely unchanged". Russia's Wagner mercenary group has boasted they have eradicated a Ukrainian military group called the 'Boris Johnson' Unit in the city of Bakhmut, which is currently under siege by Russian forces. [275] The head of the panel, Patience Wheatcroft, was married to a Conservative councillor[276] and three of the four remaining panel members also had close links to the Conservatives: Stephen Greenhalgh (Conservative Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council),[277] Patrick Frederick (Chairman of Conservative Business Relations for South East England and Southern London), and Edward Lister (Conservative Leader of Wandsworth London Borough Council). [230] After much media speculation, in August 2014 he sought selection as the Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 general election,[305] becoming the party's candidate in September. I had heard of Boris Johnson's ancestry, but you have painted such a comprehensive . One of the thornier points of contention involves safety regulations for food and plants, an area where the British government is opposed to a closer alignment with existing EU regulations. [695], Johnson condemned the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and ensured the UK joined in international sanctions on Russian banks and oligarchs. [765] He is said to have a genuine desire to be liked. [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. Nearly two-thirds of those appointed went to fee-paying schools, and almost half had attended Oxbridge. [731] Stuart Reid, Johnson's colleague at The Spectator, described the latter's views as being those of a "liberal libertarian". [801] In 2020, his son Wilfred was baptised Catholic, prompting suggestions that Johnson had returned to Catholicism. Johnson remained a popular figure in London with a strong celebrity status. [341] Johnson supported the Saudi Arabianled intervention in Yemen and refused to block UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia,[342] stating there was no clear evidence of breaches of international humanitarian law by Saudi Arabia in the war in Yemen. [66] To his later regret, he joined the Old Etonian-dominated Bullingdon Club, an exclusive drinking society notorious for acts of vandalism on host premises. [683], In November 2021, Johnson warned that the European Union faces "a choice" between "sticking up for Ukraine" and approving the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline which runs from Russia to Europe. [634] As of May 2022, the government comprised 122 ministers. [492] On 5April, with his symptoms persisting, he was admitted to a hospital for tests. [559] Following the announcement by opposition parties that they would boycott the new committee, and faced with a backlash in the media and from MPs of all parties, the government reversed its position and announced that a new vote would take place on whether Paterson should be suspended. [312] Several Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians condemned them as racist and unacceptable. "; Johnson responded: "I paid for Downing Street's refurbishment personally. Johnson's maternal great-grandfather, Elias Avery Lowe, was a Moscow-born Jew born to a textile merchant. In the last ballot, on 20June, he reached 160 votes and was named one of the final two candidates, alongside Jeremy Hunt. [116], Back in London, Hastings turned down Johnson's request to become a war reporter,[117] instead promoting him to the position of assistant editor and chief political columnist. [720] She later referred to his "opportunistic some might say pragmatic approach to politics". [584], On 12 April 2022, Downing Street confirmed that Johnson would be issued a fixed penalty notice for 50 as police believed he had broken the law by breaching COVID-19 regulations when attending parties during COVID-19 restrictions. [856], Johnson's mother is the granddaughter of Elias Avery Lowe, a palaeographer, who was a Russian Jewish immigrant to the US,[857] and Pennsylvania-born Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, a translator of Thomas Mann. [193] To make up for this loss of income, Johnson negotiated with The Daily Telegraph to raise his annual fee from 200,000 to 250,000, averaging at 5,000 per column, each of which took up around an hour and a half of his time. [245], Johnson's first policy initiative was a ban on drinking alcohol on public transport. [107][108] He then entered a relationship with a childhood friend, Marina Wheeler, who had moved to Brussels in 1990,[109] and in May 1993, they were married at Horsham in Sussex,[110] soon after which Marina gave birth to a daughter. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. [126] When the phone conversation was published in 1995, Johnson stated that ultimately he had not obliged Guppy's request. "[489][490] On 23March, this was strengthened into a COVID-19 lockdown throughout the UK, except for a few limited purposes, backed up by new legal powers. Johnson was born in New York City in 1964 to British parents. [570] Two eyewitnesses later alleged that Johnson and Symonds attended, contradicting Johnson's insistence in December 2021 that there were "no parties". [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. Some commentators noted that, while, as Johnson said, Cincinnatus returned to his plough, he was also later recalled to power. Hayton, Richard. [294] Later that month, the Greater London Authority referred Johnson and his actions in the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) "so it can assess whether or not it is necessary to investigate the former mayor of London for the criminal offence of misconduct in public office". 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[302] In 2016, Sadiq Khan announced that three German-made water cannon, which Johnson had bought for the Metropolitan Police without waiting for clearance from the then-Home Secretary Theresa May, were to be sold, with the proceeds going to youth services. [659] Johnson's government placed importance on maintaining the "Special Relationship" with the United States. [813] The couple's marriage ended in divorce or annulment in 1993[f] and 12 days later Johnson married Marina Wheeler, a barrister, daughter of journalist and broadcaster Charles Wheeler. [32] As a child, Johnson was quiet and studious[26] and was deaf, resulting in several operations to insert grommets into his ears. 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