Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, author, and former journalist. He has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. Johnson was educated at Eton College and studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. He was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. In 2008, he was elected Mayor of London and resigned from the House of Commons; he was re-elected as Mayor in 2012.
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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, author, and former journalist. He has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. Johnson was educated at Eton College and studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. He was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. In 2008, he was elected Mayor of London and resigned from the House of Commons; he was re-elected as Mayor in 2012. During his mayoralty, Johnson oversaw the 2012 Summer Olympics, introduced the New Routemaster buses, a cycle hire scheme and the Thames cable car. He stepped down as mayor the following year, during which he became a prominent figure in the successful Vote Leave campaign for Brexit in the 2016 EU membership referendum. He then served as Foreign Secretary during the earlier stages of Theresa May’s premiership. In the 2019 general election, Johnson led the Conservative party to its biggest parliamentary victory since 1987, winning 43. 6% of the vote – the largest share of any party since 1979. His September 2019 prorogation of Parliament was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court. His actions that are viewed by supporters as pragmatic tend to be viewed by opponents as opportunistic. Supporters of Johnson have praised him as optimistic, humorous and entertaining, with an appeal stretching beyond traditional Conservative voters.
Conversely, his critics have accused him of elitism, cronyism, and prejudice. Johnson has been described as belonging to the ideological tradition of one-nation conservatism, as well as national conservatism. Johnson’s earliest recorded ambition was to be “world king” or ” king of the world” He has a daughter, Rachel, a son, Leo, and a daughter-in-law, Charlotte Fawcett, who is an Oxford-born artist from a family of liberal intellectuals. He also has a son named Alexander, who was born in 1964. He is the son of Stanley Johnson, an Englishman, then studying economics at Columbia University, and his 22-year-old wife of one year Charlotte Faw cett, a daughter of Sir James Fawcet, a barrister. In September 1964, they moved to the US, where they lived opposite the Chelsea Hotel. In 1969, the family returned to England and settled into West Nethercote Farm, near Winsford in Somerset, Stanley’s remote family home on Exmoor in the West Country. Stanley then gained employment with a policy panel on population control, and in June moved the family to Norwalk, Connecticut. In late 1969, they relocated to Maida Vale, while Stanley began post-graduate research at the London School of Economics. In July 1965, they lived in Crouch End in north London. In February 1966, they had a third child, Leo. In June 1967, they went to Nor walk, Connecticut, where Stanley had gain employment with the World Bank.
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