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One quarter of those appointed were women, and the Cabinet set a record for ethnic minority representation, with four secretaries of state and two additional ministers coming from minority backgrounds. "[579][580][581] Amery's call was itself a reference to Cromwell's dismissal of the Rump parliament. [452], Shortly after he had become prime minister, Johnson's government announced increased public sector spending. [267], Johnson championed London's financial sector and denounced what he saw as "banker bashing" following the financial crisis of 200708,[268] condemning the anti-capitalist Occupy London movement that appeared in 2011. [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. During the meetings, Miller and Johnson "swapped speech-writing ideas and tips". [90] In early 1989, Johnson was appointed to the newspaper's Brussels bureau to report on the European Commission,[91] remaining in the post until 1994. As Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee in the US, has said: "From what we've seen, the parallels between the Russian intervention in Brexit and the Russian intervention in the Trump campaign appear to be extraordinary.". [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. Prime Minister Johnson's paternal grandmother was of English, German, French, European Royal, and Irish, ancestry, along with more remote Cornish, Dutch, and Belgian lines. [338] On one occasion Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi walked out of a meeting with Johnson after a meeting did not "get beyond the pleasantries". [71] Alongside Guppy, he co-edited the university's satirical magazine Tributary. [641], On 5 September 2022, it was announced that Liz Truss had won the Conservative leadership election. The report found Johnson should have declared an interest concerning Arcuri and that his failure to do this could have breached the London Assembly's code of conduct. [601], On 7 February, while Starmer and his colleague David Lammy were leaving Parliament, they were ambushed by a group of people who shouted abuse at Starmer including the words "traitor" and "Jimmy Savile". [70], Johnson was popular and well known at Oxford. 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It is like one of those vast Indian programmes of compulsory vasectomy. ", "Boris Johnson the Godfather takes his retribution in massacre of cabinet ministers", "Boris Johnson dismantles cabinet in reshuffle, building government around people who delivered Brexit vote", "Boris Johnson gives himself 'Minister for the Union' title", "Do Boris Johnson's tax and spending plans add up? In a February 2018 letter to May, Johnson suggested that Northern Ireland may have to accept border controls after Brexit and that it would not seriously affect trade, having initially said a hard border would be unthinkable. [481][482] Johnson's public communication over the virus and the UK's test and trace system have also been criticised. LONDON - For almost a decade, Alexander Temerko, who forged a career at the top of the Russian arms industry and had connections at the . 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. [457] (The whip was restored to 10 former Conservative ministers on 29October. [111] Johnson and his new wife settled in Islington, north London,[112] an area known for its association with the left-liberal intelligentsia. 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. [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. [557] The motion called for the creation of a new Conservative-majority committee to examine reforms of the standards investigation process. On 9November 2019 it was revealed that the IOPC, which had been due to publish a report on its investigation, had decided to do so after the general election of 12December. All staffed ticket offices would be closed to save over 40million a year and replaced with automated ticketing systems. [255] In 2012, he banned London buses from displaying the adverts of Core Issues Trust, a Christian group, which compared homosexuality to an illness. [369][370] Following the March 2018 poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, an act which the UK government blamed on Russia,[371][372] Johnson compared Vladimir Putin's hosting of the World Cup in Russia to Adolf Hitler's hosting of the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. [201][202], Johnson's mayoral campaign focused on reducing youth crime, making public transport safer, and replacing the articulated buses with an updated version of the AEC Routemaster. The register of MPs' interests states that Johnson has a rental income of at least 10,000 a year. 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". [25] In July 1965, the family moved to Crouch End in north London,[26] and in February 1966 they relocated to Washington, D.C., where Stanley had gained employment with the World Bank. [297], In 2015, Johnson criticised then-presidential candidate Donald Trump's false comments that there were no-go zones in London governed by shariah and inaccessible for non-Muslims. [235] Abolishing the western wing of the congestion charging zone,[236] he cancelled plans to increase the congestion charge for four-wheel-drive vehicles. "Human Rights in the Private Sphere". [717][725] In 2019, Al Jazeera editor James Brownswell said that although Johnson had "leaned to the right" since the Brexit campaign, he remained "slightly more socially liberal" than much of his party. Johnson left office still popular with the people of London. ", "Boris Johnson pulls out of Conservative leadership race", "Boris Johnson says he will not stand in Tory leadership contest", "Boris Johnson had backing to challenge Rishi Sunak, Sir Graham Brady confirms", "Two-thirds of public don't want Boris Johnson to return as PM", "It's One Nation under Boris Johnson's populist groove", "Boris Johnson aims to win back voters as 'One Nation Tory', "Conservative Party Statecraft and the Johnson Government", "Was Boris Johnson's One-Nation Post-Electoral Pledge Sincere? The Liberal Democrat candidate, Helen Morgan, overturned a Conservative majority of nearly 23,000 to win the seat. We have changed tack once and we can change once again". [130] He was invited back on to later episodes, including as a guest presenter; for his 2003 appearance, Johnson received a nomination for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. There was much speculation that he had returned to Parliament because he wanted to replace Cameron as Conservative leader and prime minister. [461] A key slogan used in the Conservative campaign was their promise to "Get Brexit Done".[462]. [667] China accused the UK of interfering in its internal affairs. [380][381] The authority rejected the suggestion that it was quibbling over newspaper headlines and not Johnson's actual words. [644], In early April 2022, Johnson decided to ban conversion therapy for sexual orientation but not for transgender Britons, despite previous commitment to end such treatment for all LGBT people. Johnson was a prominent figure in the successful Vote Leave campaign for Brexit in the 2016 European Union membership referendum. [697], On 9 April 2022, Johnson travelled to Kyiv and met the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This took place despite an increase in cases driven by the Delta variant. [861] Johnson was also given the middle name "Boris" after a White Russian migr named Boris Litwin, who was a friend of his parents. The Adam Smith Institute described Johnson's speech as "bombastic but vacuous and economically illiterate". [266] He was criticised for his response to the 2011 London riots; holidaying with his family in British Columbia when the rioting broke out, he did not return immediately to London, only doing so 48 hours after it had begun and addressing Londoners 60 hours thereafter. [52] His friends were largely from the wealthy upper-middle and upper classes, his best friends then being Darius Guppy and Charles Spencer, both of whom later accompanied him to the University of Oxford and remained friends into adulthood. Facing criticism, Johnson stated he had been misquoted and that nothing he said had justified Zaghari-Ratcliffe's sentence. 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". "[12] The campaign of Labour incumbent Ken Livingstone portrayed Johnson as an out-of-touch toff and bigot, citing racist and homophobic language used in his columns; Johnson responded these quotes had been taken out of context and were meant as satire. ", "Conservative moderates plan to take back control of Boris Johnson as prime minister", "Boris Johnson: Classic Tory or Political Maverick? "I have certainly met him without officials," he said. [208][209], After Johnson became mayor, those in City Hall who were deemed too closely allied to Livingstone's administration had their employment terminated. He previously served as Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and as Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. [846] Having been a member of the Conservatives between 2008 and 2011, Rachel Johnson joined the Liberal Democrats in 2017. The Prime Minister famously has a huge family - he is. Andrew Mitchell convinced Major not to veto Johnson's candidacy, but Johnson could not find a constituency. [668], Johnson refused to describe the Chinese government's treatment of the Uyghur people as "genocide", despite use of the term by the United States. [423] The government subsequently announced 2.1bn of funding to prepare for a no-deal Brexit on 31October. In September 1987, Johnson and Mostyn-Owen were married in West Felton, Shropshire, accompanied by a duet for violin and viola Allegra e Boris[82] specially commissioned for the wedding from Hans Werner Henze. [35] Having few or no friends other than their siblings, the children became very close. Watch: Boris Johnson says people need to understand the "sheer cost in human life" war could entail Evidence suggests Russia is planning "the biggest war in Europe since 1945", Prime Minister. [340] Johnson pledged to help Turkey join the EU and expressed support for Erdogan's government. [405][406], In April 2019, the Independent Press Standards Organisation ruled that a claim in a 6January 2019 article in The Daily Telegraph, "The British people won't be scared into backing a woeful Brexit deal nobody voted for", authored by Johnson,[407] that a no-deal Brexit was "by some margin preferred by the British public" was false, and "represented a failure to take care over the accuracy of the article in breach of Clause 1 (i)" of its guidelines, and required that a correction to the false claim be published in the print edition, and appended to the online version. [543][544] On the same day Johnson said that he had not broken any laws over the refurbishment and had met the requirements he was obliged to meet in full. [608], In the week prior to and throughout the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II in June 2022, it had been speculated that a vote of confidence in Johnson's leadership of the Conservative Party might occur in the near future. [427] Some suggested[428] that this prorogation amounted to a self-coup, and on 31August 2019, protests occurred in towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom. Satilmis Karatekin, a distant cousin, said the village would look forward to hosting Johnson in the near future. [468] Throughout the pandemic, Johnson made a number of policy decisions to curb the pandemic some time after the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) advised them, and contradicting his previous pledges and statements. Boris Johnson's departure from Downing Street, on September 6, triggered an immediate mood shift in London toward the EU | Dan Kitwood/Getty Images. Concerns were raised in the study that this could affect the public's compliance with pandemic restrictions. "[829] In March 2021, she went into more detail about the alleged affair in an interview with the Sunday Mirror, saying it lasted from 2012 to 2016. [205], In the election, Johnson received 43% and Livingstone 37% of first-preference votes; when second-preference votes were added, Johnson proved victorious with 53% to Livingstone's 47%. [197] As a result of his various activities, in 2007, he earned 540,000, making him the UK's third-highest-earning MP that year. [567][568], On 10 January 2022, ITV News reported that a planned party had taken place on 20 May 2020, during the first lockdown. [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. [787] In February 2015, he announced his intention to renounce his US citizenship to demonstrate his loyalty to the UK,[788] which he did in 2016. [612] The vote showed more widespread lack of confidence in Johnson than similar votes during the leadership of Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May. [660][661] In 2022, his government introduced an asylum deal with Rwanda, whereby people entering the UK illegally would be sent to Rwanda. [362][363][364] In October 2017, he faced criticism for stating the Libyan city of Sirte could become an economic success like Dubai: "all they have to do is clear the dead bodies away". Label. [492] On 5April, with his symptoms persisting, he was admitted to a hospital for tests. Johnson's role in the proceedings was as the co-chair of an Olympic board which oversaw the games. [633] By 4 p.m. on 6 July, there had been a total of 31 resignations. [520] Record numbers of infections and daily deaths were recorded in the UK throughout January, and the government began exploring quarantine procedures on arrival. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards found the errors were not inadvertent, and that Johnson had failed on nine occasions to make declarations within the rules. He previously served as Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and as Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. He is Turkish if you count only his paternal ancestry but realistically only 6% Turkish and doesn't seem to identify as Turkish. At the 2015 general election he was elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, and the following year did not seek re-election as mayor. [126] In the conversation, Guppy said that his criminal activities involving insurance fraud were being investigated by News of the World journalist Stuart Collier, and he asked Johnson to provide him with Collier's private address, seeking to have the latter beaten to the extent of "a couple of black eyes and a cracked rib or something like that". When interviewed in January 2019, he said he had not mentioned Turkey during the campaign. Boris Johnson's family tree grew larger in December, as he and his third wife, Carrie Johnson, welcomed their second child together. [408], On 16May 2019, Johnson confirmed he would stand in the forthcoming Conservative Party leadership election following Theresa May's anticipated resignation. [358], Johnson visited the islands of Anguilla, and Tortola (in the British Virgin Islands) on 13September 2017 to confirm the United Kingdom's commitment to helping restore British territories devastated by Hurricane Irma. 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