[404], In September 2018, Johnson wrote: "We have opened ourselves to perpetual political blackmail. [94] He wrote that Brussels had recruited sniffers to ensure that Euro-manure smells the same,[95] and that the Eurocrats were about to dictate the acceptable curve of bananas[c] and the limits on the power of vacuum cleaners,[97][d] and to order women to return their old sex toys. [72] In 1984, Johnson was elected secretary of the Oxford Union,[73] and campaigned unsuccessfully for the career-enhancing and important position of Union President. "I met him on a very. [102] Johnson's articles established him as the favourite journalist of the Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher,[103] but Johnson annoyed her successor, the Europhile John Major, who spent a great deal of time attempting to refute what Johnson said. However, the Foreign Office rejected the advisory opinion. [119] Some critics condemned his writing style as bigotry; in various columns he used the words "piccaninnies" and "watermelon smiles" when referring to Africans, championed European colonialism in Uganda[120][121][122] and referred to gay men as "tank-topped bumboys". 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[705][706] Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Johnson took part in Charles III's Accession Council, and many other funeral-related events. [272] In turn he remained largely supportive of his friends in the media among them Rupert Murdoch during the News International phone hacking scandal. ", "Boris Johnson goes looking for Conservative friends in the north", "Boris Johnson: The UK's deeply polarising next prime minister", "Boris Johnson's Chaotic Path to Power Finally Pays Off", "Boris Johnson, by his mother Charlotte Johnson Wahl", "Stanley Johnson: Why I remain a fan of Brussels", "The 10 ages of Boris Johnson: a guide to his road to power", "When Boris was just another Timbertop Rent-A-Pom", "David Dimbleby Slams 'Disgraceful' Boris Johnson For Ruining Bullingdon Club", "UK riots: how do Boris Johnson's Bullingdon antics compare? [561], After Paterson resigned, a by-election was held in Paterson's former constituency of North Shropshire. [324][325] The Daily Telegraph called Gove's comments "the most spectacular political assassination in a generation". When interviewed in January 2019, he said he had not mentioned Turkey during the campaign. She became prime minister the next day, after formally being appointed by Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle. [28] A third child, Leo, was born in September 1967. [240] He introduced a public bicycle scheme that had been mooted by Livingstone's administration; colloquially known as "Boris Bikes", the part privately financed system cost 140million and was a significant financial loss but proved popular. It's a very, very good thought." [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. [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. [847] She stood as a candidate for Change UK in the 2019 European Elections. February 28, 2023 4:40 am CET. [742] During the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Johnson called for greater efforts towards climate change mitigation,[743] and welcomed the prospect of coal phase-out. [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. [627] Sir Simon McDonald, former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, later said that the prime minister had been briefed "in person" about Pincher. [732] In 2019, reacting to reports in The Sun, that Johnson had told cabinet colleagues he was "basically a Brexity Hezza", former deputy leader of the Conservative Party Michael Heseltine said Johnson "has no right to call himself a one-nation Conservative" and wrote: "I fear that any traces of liberal conservatism that still exist within the prime minister have long since been captured by the rightwing, foreigner-bashing, inward-looking view of the world that has come to characterise his fellow Brexiters. [286][287] Johnson was accused of covering up pollution ahead of the games by deploying dust suppressants to remove air particulates near monitoring stations. Shortly after 4am local time on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and world leaders . [229] [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. "[746] As Mayor of London, Johnson was known as a supporter of immigration. [215] Controversy erupted when he was questioned about his Daily Telegraph fee on BBC's HARDtalk; there, he referred to the 250,000 as "chicken feed", something that was widely condemned, given that this was roughly 10 times the average yearly wage for a British worker. He said that Turkey's coup attempt "was deeply violent, deeply anti-democratic, deeply sinister and it was totally right that it was crushed". [71] Alongside Guppy, he co-edited the university's satirical magazine Tributary. In the government's 2017 LGBT survey, five per cent of the respondents said they had been offered a form of conversion therapy, with two per cent saying they had undergone it. [157][158] However, in 2001, Johnson had spoken out against plans to repeal Section 28, saying it was "Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools". [841], Johnson is the eldest of the four children of Stanley Johnson, a former Conservative member of the European Parliament and an employee of the European Commission and the World Bank, and the painter Charlotte Johnson Wahl (ne Fawcett),[22] the daughter of Sir James Fawcett, a barrister[842][843] and president of the European Commission of Human Rights. 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 . [672] Johnson was dismissive of this, saying the pact was not intended to be adversarial towards China, and said that French officials should "prenez un grip about this and donnez-moi un break". [326] Johnson endorsed Andrea Leadsom's candidature, but she dropped out of the race a week later, leaving Theresa May to be elected uncontested. [744], Purnell believed it was the influence of Johnson's maternal family, the left-wing Fawcetts, that led to him developing "a genuine abhorrence of racial discrimination". Shortly after 4 o' clock this morning I spoke to president Zelenskyy . Concerns were raised in the study that this could affect the public's compliance with pandemic restrictions. [772][773][774], Johnson has been described as a divisive and controversial figure in British politics. [775][776][777] Supporters have praised him as humorous, witty, and entertaining. Since he was baptised Catholic, but his previous weddings were not conferred by the Catholic Church, they are considered putatively invalid. He resigned from the position two years later in protest against the Chequers Agreement and May's approach to Brexit. [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. [457] (The whip was restored to 10 former Conservative ministers on 29October. A number of the presidents of the United States have English ancestry. [396] Buzzfeed reported Johnson had been in contact with Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's former chief adviser. [765] He is said to have a genuine desire to be liked. [440], In October 2019, following bilateral talks between Johnson and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar,[441] the UK and EU agreed to a revised deal, which replaced the backstop with a new Northern Ireland Protocol. [234] He reversed several measures implemented by Livingstone's administration, ending the city's oil deal with Venezuela, abolishing The Londoner newsletter, and scrapping the half-yearly inspections of black cabs, which was reinstated three years later. [306][307] In the 2015 general election, Johnson was elected MP. [380][381] The authority rejected the suggestion that it was quibbling over newspaper headlines and not Johnson's actual words. 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. As Johnson sought a more conciliatory tone, sources within the government began to stress that the draft is designed to be an "insurance policy" and in any case would take years to become law. Johnson won the vote, with 211 in favour and 148 against (59% in favour, 41% against). [129], Johnson's appearance on an April 1998 episode of the BBC's satirical current affairs show Have I Got News for You brought him national fame. ", "The joke's over how Boris Johnson is damaging Britain's global stature", "Is the EU really dictating the shape of your bananas? Zaghari-Ratcliffe had said that her visit had been made simply for her daughter to meet her grandparents. [639] He remained as prime minister until September, while the Conservative Party chose a new leader. On leaving Eton, Johnson went on a gap year to Australia, where he taught English and Latin at Timbertop, an Outward Bound-inspired campus of Geelong Grammar, an elite independent boarding school. Both Cummings and Johnson rejected widespread calls that Cummings resign. 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