Stanley Patrick Johnson is a British author and former Conservative Party politician. He served as Member of the European Parliament for Wight and Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984. He has written books on environmental and population issues. In November 2017 he came out in support of the UK leaving the European Union.
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Stanley Patrick Johnson is a British author and former Conservative Party politician. He served as Member of the European Parliament for Wight and Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984. He has written books on environmental and population issues. His six children include Boris Johnson, who is the current Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In November 2017 he came out in support of the UK leaving the European Union. Johnson has previously worked at the World Bank, has a great interest in the environment and was the Head of Prevention of Pollution Division at the European Commission from 1973 to 1979. He is a trustee of the Gorilla Organisation and a board member of Plantlife International.
He was one of the first regular hosts of the late night discussion programme The Last Word on Channel 4’s More4 channel, and made an appearance on Have I Got News For You on 7 May 2004. In October 2015 he was awarded the RSPB Medal by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for his role in the creation of one of Europe’s cornerstones of nature conservation policy – the Habitats Directive. In December 2015 he received the Living Planet Award for the World Wide Fund for Nature Leader for a a Living Planet for a Leadership in Nature Leader. For a time, starting on 26 May 2005, he wrote a weekly column for The Guardian, and continues to write for various newspapers and magazines, often on environmental topics.
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