Label. [156] In free votes, he demonstrated a more socially liberal attitude than many colleagues, supporting the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the repeal of Section 28. The Russian forces defeated a Ukrainian army unit near Artemovsk (Bakhmut) named after former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, one of the commanders of the Wagner PMC told Sputnik.He displayed the the trophies taken during the fight on the southern outskirts of the city, which included a flag from a unit of the "elite" 24th Mechanized Brigade stationed in the western part of Ukraine. [784], Since Johnson was born in New York City to British parents, he first held British-American dual citizenship. [558] Many Conservative MPs refused to support the motion, and 13 defied a three-line whip to vote against it. [77] Finally, Johnson was awarded an upper second-class degree,[78][79] and was deeply unhappy he did not receive a first.[80]. [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". [308], In February 2016, Johnson endorsed Vote Leave in the "Out" campaign for the 2016 European Union membership referendum. Following the 2017 general election, Johnson denied media reports he intended to challenge May's leadership. [603][604] Death threats sent to Starmer following this episode were later investigated by the police. [599] Julian Smith, the former chief whip, and Simon Hoare were among Conservatives who called for Johnson to apologise. This left the government without a working majority in the House of Commons. [377] Johnson supported the Turkish invasion of northern Syria aimed at ousting the Syrian Kurds from the enclave of Afrin. Shortly after 4am local time on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and world leaders . [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. The prime minister has demeaned his office. [172] Johnson had a strained relationship with Duncan Smith, and The Spectator became critical of his party leadership. [134] While retaining The Spectator's traditional right-wing bent, Johnson welcomed contributions from leftist writers and cartoonists. Johnson was born in New York City in 1964 to British parents. [16][17][18], Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was born on 19June 1964 in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City,[19][20] to 23-year-old Stanley Johnson, then studying economics at Columbia University,[21] and 22-year-old Charlotte Fawcett,[22] an artist from a family of liberal intellectuals. [179][180] In July 2005, Who's the Daddy?, a play by The Spectator's theatre critics Toby Young and Lloyd Evans being performed at Islington's King's Head Theatre, satirised the scandal. [848] Johnson also has two half-siblings, Julia and Maximilian, through his father's later marriage to Jennifer Kidd. 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. [674][675] A few weeks later, following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, he blamed the United States for the crisis caused by the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan,[676][677] saying that NATO alliance members "could not continue this US-led mission, a mission conceived and executed in support of America, without American logistics, without US air power and without American might". The judge ruled the public had a right to know about Johnson's "reckless" behaviour. [628][629], On 5 July, Sunak and Javid resigned within minutes of each other,[630] followed over the next 24 hours by 11 other ministers, as well as Conservative MPs from Parliamentary Private Secretary and other Government positions, including the Solicitor General, Alex Chalk;[631] other backbenchers also withdrew their support for Johnson. [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. [721] In 2012, the political scientist Tony Travers described Johnson as "a fairly classicthat is, small-statemildly eurosceptic Conservative" who, like his contemporaries Cameron and George Osborne, also embraced "modern social liberalism". 24 February 2022 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) PM addresses the nation on the situation in Ukraine. [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. ", "David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the 'populist hypothesis' in the British Conservative Party", "Who is Boris Johnson, Britain's new prime minister? [801] In 2020, his son Wilfred was baptised Catholic, prompting suggestions that Johnson had returned to Catholicism. He has been married twice and has six children. [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. Johnson therefore became the first prime minister in British history to have been sanctioned for breaking the law while in office. Later U.S. presidents ancestry can often be traced to ancestors from multiple nations in Europe, including England. ", "Conservative moderates plan to take back control of Boris Johnson as prime minister", "Boris Johnson: Classic Tory or Political Maverick? [178] In April 2006, the News of the World alleged that Johnson was having an affair with Guardian journalist Anna Fazackerley. [470] Throughout December 2020, COVID-19 cases across the UK rose significantly, putting additional strain on emergency services and hospitals[513][514] as the Alpha variant spread widely. [93] He wrote articles about euromyths such as the EU wanting to ban prawn cocktail crisps and British sausages, and to standardise condom sizes because Italians had smaller penises. [139][140], Journalist Charlotte Edwardes wrote in The Times in 2019 alleging that Johnson had squeezed her thigh at a private lunch in the offices of the Spectator in 1999 and that another woman had told her he had done the same to her. For its part, the EU has so far rebuffed the idea of changing the text of the treaty to accommodate the British. 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. [476][477] This response is thought by some scientists to have contributed to the UK's high death toll from COVID-19, which as of January2021[update] was among the highest in the world in total and by population. [299] Johnson added that he "would invite [Trump] to come and see the whole of London and take him round the city except I wouldn't want to expose Londoners to any unnecessary risk of meeting Donald Trump". [750] Johnson also stated his opposition to a referendum on the Brexit withdrawal agreement. In interviews, Bannon had praised Johnson and said he should challenge Theresa May for the party leadership. [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. [23] They returned to their native England in September 1964, so that Charlotte could study at the University of Oxford;[24] during this time she lived with her son in Summertown, a suburb of Oxford, and in September 1965 she gave birth to a daughter, Rachel. [86] Scandal erupted when Johnson wrote an article for the newspaper, on the archaeological discovery of EdwardII's palace, having invented a quote for the article which he falsely attributed to the historian Colin Lucas, his godfather. Johnson's parents had married in 1963 before moving to the United States. [257][258], Johnson appointed himself chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), and in October 2008 successfully pushed for the resignation of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair after the latter was criticised for allegedly handing contracts to friends and for his handling of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. [659] Johnson's government placed importance on maintaining the "Special Relationship" with the United States. [419] Johnson appointed Dominic Cummings, whom he worked with on the Vote Leave campaign, as his senior advisor. The Adam Smith Institute described Johnson's speech as "bombastic but vacuous and economically illiterate". He left office on 6 September and was succeeded by Liz Truss; his Foreign Secretary. [243] As per his election pledge, he commissioned the development of the New Routemaster buses for central London. [155] He usually supported the Conservative party line but rebelled against it five times in this period. [332][333][334] His tenure in the role attracted criticism from diplomats and foreign policy experts. [454][455], On 3September 2019, Phillip Lee crossed the floor to the Liberal Democrats following a disagreement with Johnson's Brexit policy. He also responded to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and authorising foreign aid and weapons shipments to Ukraine. ", "Lies, damned lies: the full list of accusations against Boris Johnson", "London mayor Boris Johnson eyes Trump-style insurgency in EU battle", "The most controversial PM since Lloyd George: historians on Boris Johnson", "Boris Johnson could be hit with six-figure tax bill", "New York-born London mayor Boris Johnson refuses to pay US tax bill", "London Mayor Boris Johnson agrees to pay US tax bill", "Crikey! [224] He was accused of cronyism,[225] in particular for appointing Veronica Wadley, a former Evening Standard editor who had supported him, as the chair of London's Arts Council when she was widely regarded as not being the best candidate for the position. [438] Despite government opposition, the Benn Act, a bill to block a no-deal exit, passed the Commons on 4September 2019, causing Johnson to propose a general election on 15October. Given the middle name Boris to honor a Russian migr his parents once knew, he chose to use that name in his political career. There was much speculation that he had returned to Parliament because he wanted to replace Cameron as Conservative leader and prime minister. [189][190], In 2009, Johnson fathered a daughter with Helen Macintyre, an arts consultant. [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". Boris Johnson met troops at the Tapa military base in Estonia Following his speech, Mr Johnson was confronted by a Ukrainian who criticised Nato's response to the invasion, and asked why. [345][346][347] May said his comments did not represent the government's view. [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". 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