[191] In September 2006, Papua New Guinea's High Commission protested after he compared the Conservatives' frequently changing leadership to cannibalism in Papua New Guinea. [92] A strong critic of the integrationist Commission president Jacques Delors, he established himself as one of the city's few Eurosceptic journalists. He was re-elected mayor in 2012. [383], In March 2018, Johnson apologised for his "inadvertent sexism" after being criticised for calling Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry as "Lady Nugee"; Thornberry was married to Christopher Nugee but did not use his surname. A unilateral override by the UK would be tantamount to a breach of the agreement. [309] He called Cameron's warnings about leaving "greatly over exaggerated". [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. [127] In 1999, he was also given a column reviewing new cars in the magazine GQ. Johnson, who has traveled to Kyiv twice to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said allowing Russia success in its invasion would set a dangerous precedent. [245], Johnson's first policy initiative was a ban on drinking alcohol on public transport. We have changed tack once and we can change once again". Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Boris Johnson; g. 1964 m. birelio 19 d., Niujorkas, JAV ) - Jungtins Karalysts urnalistas, politikas. 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. Johnson's stepmother, Jenny, the second wife of his father Stanley, is the stepdaughter of Teddy Sieff, the former chairman of Marks & Spencer. Overview. 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. [324][325] The Daily Telegraph called Gove's comments "the most spectacular political assassination in a generation". 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. [270] He collected donations from the city's wealthy for a charitable enterprise, the Mayor's Fund, which he had established to aid disadvantaged youths. Everyone would think he'd gone mad. 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. The Libertines triad wouldn't be complete without their producer (and former member of the British punk band The Clash) Mick Jones. 2. [361], In September 2017, he was criticised for reciting lines from Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay while visiting a Myanmar temple; the British ambassador, who was with him, suggested it was "not appropriate". [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. . [238] In November 2013, Johnson announced major changes to the operation of London Underground, including the extension of operating hours to run through the night at weekends. Johnson, for all his gifts, is unlikely to grace any future Tory cabinet. [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. [809] However, in 2021, Johnson was asked if he held pre-Christian beliefs, which he denied, saying, "Christianity is a superb ethical system and I would count myself as a kind of very, very bad Christian[.] [194][195] He presented a popular history television show, The Dream of Rome, which was broadcast in January 2006; a book followed in February. [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. However, the Foreign Office rejected the advisory opinion. [649], Johnson announced that the UK would join the Global Methane Pledge to cut methane emissions by 30% by the year of 2030 at the COP26 summit, which the UK hosted. [36], In late 1969, the family moved to Maida Vale in west London, while Stanley began post-graduate research at the London School of Economics. Senior Tories heavily criticised him, with Alan Duncan of the Foreign Office vowing to ensure the comments marked "the political end of Boris Johnson". [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. [576] There were immediate calls across the House for Johnson to resign, voiced mainly by the leaders of the opposition parties. [702][703] In August 2022, Johnson blamed Vladimir Putin for the emerging global energy crisis, saying that Putin wanted the UK to "buckle" in the face of "eye-watering" energy price rises.[704]. [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. [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. [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. [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. 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. Starmer was DPP in the years immediately prior to Savile's death but there is no evidence he was involved in the decision to not have him prosecuted. [189][190], In 2009, Johnson fathered a daughter with Helen Macintyre, an arts consultant. [642][643] During his farewell speech outside 10 Downing Street on 6 September 2022 Johnson referred to the Roman statesman Cincinnatus. [126] When the phone conversation was published in 1995, Johnson stated that ultimately he had not obliged Guppy's request. Max Hastings, London Evening Standard, [146], Following Michael Heseltine's retirement, Johnson decided to stand as Conservative candidate for Henley, a Conservative safe seat in Oxfordshire. 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. [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". Boris Johnson has told MPs he met Russian oligarch and ex-KGB officer Alexander Lebedev without officials present. [446], Johnson appointed his Cabinet on 24July 2019,[447] dismissing 11 senior ministers and accepting the resignation of six others. [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. 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. [488] On 20March, Johnson requested the closure of pubs, restaurants, gyms, entertainment venues, museums and galleries that evening, though with some regret, saying, "We're taking away the ancient, inalienable right of free-born people of the United Kingdom to go to the pub. [705][706] Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Johnson took part in Charles III's Accession Council, and many other funeral-related events. 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. . [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. Boris Johnson's departure from Downing Street, on September 6, triggered an immediate mood shift in London toward the EU | Dan Kitwood/Getty Images. [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". [689] Johnson and Putin agreed in a phone call to work towards a "peaceful resolution". [596], On 6 June, Graham Brady announced that the threshold for a vote on Johnson's leadership had been passed; the vote was scheduled for later that same day. [b] After agreeing to a revised Brexit withdrawal agreement, which replaced the Irish backstop with a new Northern Ireland Protocol, but failing to win parliamentary support for the agreement, Johnson called a snap general election in December 2019. [367], Initially favouring a less hostile approach to Russia,[368] Johnson soon backed a more aggressive policy towards Russia. Source: Reuters. [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". [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. [612] The result was described by Keir Starmer as the "beginning of the end" for Johnson's premiership. Nearly two-thirds of those appointed went to fee-paying schools, and almost half had attended Oxbridge. In 2008, Johnson was elected Mayor of London and resigned from the House of Commons. We have time in these negotiations. [551][552] The Herald say the commission's report outlines how in March all the money paid by Brownlow and his company had been reimbursed as had payments made by the Conservative Party and Cabinet Office. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg. ", "Coronavirus: What are the lockdown measures across Europe? [292] In 2013, a mayoral fund awarded her company, Innotech, 10,000, followed the next year by Arcuri being awarded 15,000 from a government programme. Johnson is living in accommodation that the wife of Conservative donor Lord Bamford owns.[714]. [519], A third lockdown for the whole of England was introduced on 6January 2021. [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. [271] He also maintained extensive personal contacts throughout the British media,[272] which resulted in widespread favourable press coverage of his administration. Johnson intervened to allow her onto three trade mission trips. [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. Symonds had worked for the Conservative party since 2009 and worked on Johnson's 2012 campaign to be re-elected as mayor. He. [859][860], Referring to his varied ancestry, Johnson has described himself as a "one-man melting pot" with a combination of Abrahamic religious great-grandparents. [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. [183] After Cameron was elected, he appointed Johnson as the shadow higher education minister, acknowledging his popularity among students. [134] While retaining The Spectator's traditional right-wing bent, Johnson welcomed contributions from leftist writers and cartoonists. [304], Johnson initially said that he would not return to the House of Commons while remaining mayor. [249] On 2July 2008, the Mayor's office announced the closure plan was to be abandoned and that offices would remain open. During the meetings, Miller and Johnson "swapped speech-writing ideas and tips". Following this announcement, which was interpreted by financial markets as making Brexit more probable, the pound sterling slumped by nearly 2% against the US dollar, reaching its lowest level since March 2009. [826] They reached a financial settlement in February 2020,[827] and the divorce was finalised by November 2020. MI5 and MI6 are said to have. [272] In turn he remained largely supportive of his friends in the media among them Rupert Murdoch during the News International phone hacking scandal. [136] His editorship also drew criticism; some opined that under him The Spectator avoided serious issues,[137] while colleagues became annoyed that he was regularly absent from the office, meetings, and events. Parents: Stanley Johnson (* 1940) and Charlotte Fawcett (1942-2021), who married in 1963 and divorced 1979. Concerns were raised in the study that this could affect the public's compliance with pandemic restrictions. [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. 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