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[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. [238][239], Johnson retained Livingstone projects such as Crossrail and the 2012 Olympic Games, but was accused of trying to take credit for them. [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. [281] During the 2012 Mayoral election, Johnson sought re-election, while Livingstone was selected as the Labour candidate again. [125], Scandal erupted in June 1995 when a recording of a 1990 telephone conversation between Johnson and his friend Darius Guppy was made public. 11. He previously served as Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and as Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. [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. It was a wonderful time to be there. [235] Abolishing the western wing of the congestion charging zone,[236] he cancelled plans to increase the congestion charge for four-wheel-drive vehicles. ", "The joke's over how Boris Johnson is damaging Britain's global stature", "Is the EU really dictating the shape of your bananas? They have four children. . No disrespect to any other religions, but Christianity makes a lot of sense to me. [285] Two of his actions after taking on this role were to improve transportation around London by making more tickets available and laying on more buses around the capital during the busy period, when thousands of spectators were temporary visitors in London. "[593], The Guardian reported that leaflets for the May 2022 local elections referred to candidates as local Conservatives and avoided pictures of Johnson. Symonds had worked for the Conservative party since 2009 and worked on Johnson's 2012 campaign to be re-elected as mayor. 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. [175] In October, Howard ordered Johnson to apologise publicly in Liverpool for publishing a Spectator article anonymously written by Simon Heffer which said the crowds at the Hillsborough disaster had contributed towards the incident and that Liverpudlians had a predilection for reliance on the welfare state. [745] In 2003, Johnson said of the EU, "I am not by any means an ultra-Eurosceptic. Overview. [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. [639] He remained as prime minister until September, while the Conservative Party chose a new leader. [657], Johnson supported the European UnionMercosur Free Trade Agreement,[658] which would form one of the world's largest free trade areas. [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. [5][862][863], "BoJo" and "Bo Jo" redirect here. [402][403] In December, Johnson was ordered to apologise to Parliament for failing to declare 50,000 of earnings. [804][805], Johnson holds ancient Greek statesman and orator Pericles as a personal hero. When interviewed in January 2019, he said he had not mentioned Turkey during the campaign. His father then worked at the. In his speech, he pledged an extra 300m in military aid to Ukraine, praised Ukraine's resistance to Russia as its "finest hour" and said that the West had been "too slow to grasp what was actually happening" prior to Russia's invasion. LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain told Ukrainian lawmakers on Tuesday that their heroic defense against Russia's invasion would rank as "Ukraine's finest hour . This made Johnson the second prime minister to be born outside the British Isles, after fellow Conservative Bonar Law, and the first to be born outside British territories. [164] Johnson remained editor of The Spectator, also writing columns for The Daily Telegraph and GQ, and making television appearances. [169] To manage the stress, he took up jogging and cycling,[170] and became so well known for the latter that Gimson suggested he was "perhaps the most famous cyclist in Britain". Boris Johnson's paternal great-grandfather and Stanley Johnson's grandfather was Turk, Ali Kemal. The following day, Johnson was elected leader with 92,153 votes (66%) to Hunt's 46,656 (34%). [111] Johnson and his new wife settled in Islington, north London,[112] an area known for its association with the left-liberal intelligentsia. [696] He later announced the UK would phase out Russian oil by the end of 2022. C-SPAN an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network is an American cable television network that offers coverage of federal government proceedings and other public affairs programming via its three television channels (C-SPAN C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN3). [418], On 24July 2019, the day following Johnson's election as Conservative Party leader, Queen ElizabethII accepted Theresa May's resignation and appointed Johnson as prime minister. [189][190] That month, he attracted further public attention for rugby-tackling former footballer Maurizio Gaudino in a charity football match. [600] On 3 February, during an interview with Sky News, Johnson defended his comments, stating that in 2013, Starmer apologised because the CPS had not investigated Savile; however, Johnson then said: "I totally understand that he [Starmer] had nothing to do personally with those decisions". [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". He had been offered a promotion to chief of staff before his departure. [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". As part of the Johnson family celebrity offer, Boris Johnson has several known relatives. [762] His favourite film is The Godfather, owing to "the multiple retribution killings at the end". [10] Johnson has been accused of lying or making untruthful or misleading statements throughout his career,[778] and has been described as racist and otherwise bigoted;[15] comparisons have been drawn with US president Donald Trump. [718][719] Purnell stated that Johnson regularly changed his opinion on political issues, commenting on what she perceived to be "an ideological emptiness beneath the staunch Tory exterior". By Matthew Mpoke Bigg. "[746] As Mayor of London, Johnson was known as a supporter of immigration. [389] In June 2018, Johnson accused the UNHRC of focusing disproportionately on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict and Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. [531][532] Several months after his dismissal, on 26May 2021, Cummings claimed during a seven-hour testimony delivered to Parliament that Johnson was "unfit for the job" and that "tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die" during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic due to what he claimed to be "criminal, disgraceful behaviour" within Downing Street under the supervision of Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Dominic Raab was moved from Foreign Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, replacing Robert Buckland in the latter role. [528][529], On 12November 2020, Downing Street Director of Communications Lee Cain resigned amid infighting within the cabinet. Helen Jane Maunder Hitchcock (1832-1920) This was a reduction on the 2035 target set in February that year, which brought forward the previous deadline of 2040. ", "Boris Johnson one nation Conservative or populist? 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 . Mr Johnson says his great-great-grandmother, a Circassian slave from a region in southern Russia, was sold to his great-great-grandfather after she fled from war to Turkey in around 1862. Indeed, he is not known for his excessive interest in serious policy matters, and it is hard to see him grubbing away at administrative detail as an obscure, hardworking junior minister for social security. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (/ffl/,[5] born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. [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. [87], Johnson secured employment on the leader-writing desk of The Daily Telegraph, having met its editor, Max Hastings, during his Oxford University Union presidency. [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. [12] Targeting the Conservative-leaning suburbs of outer London, it capitalised on perceptions that the Labour Mayoralty had neglected them in favour of inner London. [127] In 1999, he was also given a column reviewing new cars in the magazine GQ. On 1 June, Lord Geidt said he wanted Johnson to explain why he thought his fixed penalty notice did not show he had broken the ministerial code. Johnson remained a popular figure in London with a strong celebrity status. [153] Despite his credentials as a public speaker, his speeches in the House of Commons were widely deemed lacklustre; Johnson later called them "crap". [283] In 2012, Johnson was re-elected as mayor. [147] The local Conservative branch selected him although it was split over Johnson's candidacy. Johnson is living in accommodation that the wife of Conservative donor Lord Bamford owns.[714]. [92] Johnson opposed banning handguns after the Dunblane school massacre, writing in his column "Nanny is confiscating their toys. Johnson confirmed this in a 2007 interview for the . Later in Johnson's career it was a point of rivalry with David Cameron, who had failed to enter Pop. [689] Johnson and Putin agreed in a phone call to work towards a "peaceful resolution". [425], Also on 28August 2019, Johnson declared he had asked the Queen to prorogue parliament from 10September, narrowing the window in which parliament could block a no-deal Brexit and causing a political controversy. [450][451], Among other appointments, Johnson made Dominic Raab the First Secretary of State and foreign secretary, and appointed Sajid Javid and Priti Patel as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary, respectively. 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