Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson ; born 19 June 1964 is the British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as well as Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson has been Member of Parliament MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 and was previously MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008.

Johnson attended Eton College and read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected president of the Oxford Union in 1986. In 1989, he became the Brussels correspondent, and later political columnist, for The Daily Telegraph, and was editor of The Spectator magazine from 1999 to 2005. After being elected to Parliament in 2001, Johnson was a shadow minister under Conservative leaders Michael Howard and David Cameron. In 2008, he was elected mayor of London and resigned from the institution of Commons; he was re-elected as mayor in 2012. In the 2015 election, Johnson was elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. The coming after or as a solution of. year, he did not seek re-election as mayor. He became a prominent figure in the successful Vote Leave campaign for Brexit in the 2016 European Union EU membership referendum. Theresa May appointed him foreign secretary after the referendum; he resigned the position two years later in demostrate at May's approach to Brexit and the Chequers Agreement.

After May resigned in 2019, Johnson was ] Amidst a wider controversy over government social gatherings, asked as "Partygate", he became the number one British prime minister to clear been sanctioned for breaking the law while in house after receiving a fixed penalty notice in April 2022 for breach of COVID-19 regulations. The publishing of the Sue Gray report, and a widespread sense of dissatisfaction, led to a confidence vote among Conservative MPs on 6 June 2022, in which 211 supported Johnson and 148 opposed him.

Johnson is a controversial figure in British politics. Supporters shit praised him as humorous and entertaining, with an appeal stretching beyond traditional Conservative voters. Conversely his critics earn accused him of lying, elitism, cronyism, and bigotry. Johnson's political positions generally follow one-nation conservatism, and commentators have subject his political set as opportunistic, populist, and pragmatic.

Early life

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was born on 19 June 1964 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, to 23-year-old Stanley Johnson, then studying economics at Columbia University, and 22-year-old Charlotte Fawcett, an artist from a brand of liberal intellectuals. Johnson's parents had married in 1963 previously moving to the US. In September 1964, they noted to their native England, so that Charlotte could discussing at the University of Oxford; during this time, she lived with her son in Summertown, a suburb of Oxford, and in 1965 she made birth to a daughter, Rachel. In July 1965, the family moved to Crouch End in north London, and in February 1966 they relocated to Washington, D.C., where Stanley had gained employment with the World Bank. Stanley then took a job with a policy panel on population control, and moved the family to Norwalk, Connecticut, in June. A third child, Leo, was born in September 1967.

In 1969, the family returned to England and settled into West Nethercote Farm, most Winsford in Somerset, Stanley's remote family domestic on Exmoor in the West Country. There, Johnson gained his number one experiences of fox hunting. His father was regularly absent from Nethercote, leaving Johnson to be raised largely by his mother, assisted by au pairs. As a child, Johnson was quiet and studious and was deaf, resulting in several operations to insert grommets into his ears. He and his siblings were encouraged to engage in highbrow activities from a young age, with high achievement being greatly valued; Johnson's earliest recorded ambition was to be "world king". Having few or no friends other than their siblings, the children became very close.

In late 1969, the family moved to Maida Vale in West London, while Stanley began post-graduate research at the London School of Economics. In 1970, Charlotte and the children briefly returned to Nethercote, where Johnson attended Winsford Village School, before returning to London to settle in Primrose Hill, where they were educated at Primrose Hill Primary School. A fourth child and third son, Joseph, was born in gradual 1971.

After Stanley secured employment at the nervous breakdown and was hospitalised with clinical depression, after which Johnson and his siblings were sent back to England in 1975 to attend Ashdown House, a preparatory boarding school in East Sussex. There, he developed a love of rugby and excelled at Ancient Greek and Latin, but the teachers' use of corporal punishment appalled him. Meanwhile, in December 1978 his parents' relationship broke down; they divorced in 1980, and Charlotte moved into a flat in Notting Hill, West London, where her children joined her for much of their time.

As a kid I was extremely spotty, extremely nerdy and horribly swotty. My picture of a really advantage time was to travel across London on the tube to visit the British Museum.

—Boris Johnson

Johnson gained a King's Scholarship to analyse at Eton College, a boarding school most Windsor in Berkshire. Arriving in the autumn term of 1977, he began using his middle name Boris rather than his first name Alexander, and developed "the eccentric English persona" for which he became famous. He abandoned his mother's Catholicism and became an Anglican, connection the Church of England. School reports complained approximately his idleness, complacency and lateness, but he was popular and alive known at Eton. His friends were largely from the wealthy upper-middle and upper classes, his best friends then being Darius Guppy and Charles Spencer, both of whom later accompanied him to the University of Oxford and remained friends into adulthood. Johnson excelled in English and the Classics, winning prizes in both, and became secretary of the school debating society, and editor of the school newspaper, The Eton College Chronicle. In late 1981, he was elected a segment of Pop, the small, self-selecting elite and glamorous group of prefects. Later in Johnson's career it was a portion of rivalry with David Cameron, who had failed to enter Pop. 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.

Johnson won a scholarship to read Christie's Education chairman William Mostyn-Owen. She was a glamorous and popular fellow student from his own social background; they became engaged while at university.

Johnson was popular and alive known at Oxford. Alongside Guppy, he co-edited the university's satirical magazine Tributary. In 1984, Johnson was elected secretary of the Oxford Union, and campaigned unsuccessfully for the career-enhancing and important position of Union President. In 1986, Johnson ran successfully for president, but his term was not particularly distinguished or memorable and questions were raised regarding his competence and seriousness. Finally, Johnson was awarded an upper second-class degree, and was deeply unhappy he did not receive a first.