[519], A third lockdown for the whole of England was introduced on 6January 2021. The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, rejected the proposal. [694] On 21 February 2022, Johnson condemned Russia's diplomatic recognition of two self-proclaimed separatist republics in Donbas. [699], Within Ukraine, Johnson is praised by many as a supporter of anti-Russian sanctions and military aid for Ukraine. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. Boris has two younger brothers, Leo and Jo and one sister, Rachel. [193] To make up for this loss of income, Johnson negotiated with The Daily Telegraph to raise his annual fee from 200,000 to 250,000, averaging at 5,000 per column, each of which took up around an hour and a half of his time. [95] Many of his fellow journalists there were critical of his articles, opining they often contained lies designed to discredit the commission. 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. Johnson was a prominent figure in the successful Vote Leave campaign for Brexit in the 2016 European Union membership referendum. 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[797] Johnson's weight has fluctuated throughout his career; he was considered obese in 2018 and overweight in 2020, and has spoken of making efforts to lose weight. [762] His favourite film is The Godfather, owing to "the multiple retribution killings at the end". [522], In July 2021, Johnson announced that most generalised public health restrictions in England would be lifted and replaced by recommendations. 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 . [696] He later announced the UK would phase out Russian oil by the end of 2022. Edit your search or learn more U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019 City & Area Directories U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019 [330][331], Some journalists and foreign politicians criticised Johnson's appointment because of his history of controversial statements about other countries. After Liz Truss announced her resignation as Conservative Party leader on 20 October 2022, Johnson sought support from MPs to run in the subsequent leadership election, and received support from several cabinet members. 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. [445] The co-founder of The 3Million accused Johnson of "demonising" EU migrants. [127] In 1999, he was also given a column reviewing new cars in the magazine GQ. [846] Having been a member of the Conservatives between 2008 and 2011, Rachel Johnson joined the Liberal Democrats in 2017. The Liberal Democrat candidate, Helen Morgan, overturned a Conservative majority of nearly 23,000 to win the seat. [138] He gained a reputation as a poor political pundit because of incorrect political predictions made in the magazine. [174] In his Shadow Cabinet reshuffle of May 2004, Howard appointed Johnson to the position of shadow arts minister. He also claimed that he intended to stay as prime minister until the mid-2030s, although Number 10 later said that he had been joking. [123] At The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, he was consistently late delivering his copy, forcing many staff to stay late to accommodate him; some related that if they published without his work included, he would get angry and shout at them with expletives. Here is a summary of findings of Russian influence in Britain so far - which Boris Johnson doesn . [560] Paterson announced his resignation as an MP the same day. [186] He campaigned in 2006 to become the Rector of the University of Edinburgh, but his support for top-up fees damaged his campaign, and he came third. Hastings reprimanded Johnson but did not dismiss him. [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. My idea of a really good time was to travel across London on the tube to visit the British Museum. Boris Johnson is known for having a big mouth and associating with some unsavoury characters, most notably former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev and his son, Evgeny Lebedev, which led to what was called a breach of national security. [378], In a September 2017 op-ed, Johnson reiterated the UK would regain control of 350m a week after Brexit, suggesting it go to the National Health Service (NHS). A decisive event that occurred Johnson's tenure as Prime Minister was the COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020; the government responded to the pandemic by introducing various emergency powers and measures across the country to mitigate its impact, and approved the rollout of a nationwide vaccination programme. "[489][490] On 23March, this was strengthened into a COVID-19 lockdown throughout the UK, except for a few limited purposes, backed up by new legal powers. [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. Reply. [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. [251] In financing these projects, Johnson's administration borrowed 100million,[252] while public transport fares were increased by 50 per cent. [612] The result was described by Keir Starmer as the "beginning of the end" for Johnson's premiership. [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". [367], Initially favouring a less hostile approach to Russia,[368] Johnson soon backed a more aggressive policy towards Russia. [339] When questioned by a journalist whether he would apologise for the poem, Johnson dismissed the matter as "trivia". I don't think that we will end up with any such thing. [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. [817] Five weeks later, Wheeler and Johnson's first child was born. [153] Despite his credentials as a public speaker, his speeches in the House of Commons were widely deemed lacklustre; Johnson later called them "crap". [582], An abbreviated version of the Sue Gray report into the controversy was released on 31 January, where Gray concluded there was a "failure of leadership" over the events that she had examined. Filed July 19, 2019, 9 a.m. GMT. [619][620] On 26 June 2022 Johnson said: "At the moment I'm thinking actively about the third term and what could happen then, but I will review that when I get to it." [697], On 9 April 2022, Johnson travelled to Kyiv and met the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [753][needs update], Speaking in Northern Ireland, Johnson described himself as a "fervent and passionate unionist". This whole debate demonstrates our sovereignty. How Dominic Cummings put Barnard Castle on the map", "No 10 'chaos' as 'defiant' PM defends Cummings", "Why Is the U.K. in an Uproar Over a Boris Johnson Adviser's COVID Road Trip? [569] At the time, people outdoors were not allowed to meet more than one person from outside their household. [375], Johnson condemned the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar,[376] comparing the situation with the displacement of Palestinians in 1948. The former Prime Minister swore last week while dismissing claims that Mr Sunak had to revise the post-Brexit Protocol arrangements to win favour with pro-Irish US President Joe Biden. [626] Ministers initially said that Johnson was unaware of any specific complaints against Pincher when he was appointed as deputy chief whip. Johnson has previously been. Boris Johnson's paternal great-grandfather and Stanley Johnson's grandfather was Turk, Ali Kemal. [793] Among friends and family, Johnson is more commonly known as Al (short for his forename Alexander), rather than his middle name Boris. One-time ardent royalist Alex Salmond says his friend King Charles shouldn't be allowed to borrow the Stone of Destiny for the Coronation.. 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