VERY INTERESTING: BORIS JOHNSON

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Boris Johnson

• The Right Honourable Boris Johnson MP
• Boris Johnson in August 2019
• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: Assumed office 24 July 2019
• Leader of the Conservative Party: Assumed office 23 July 2019
• Commonwealth Chair-in-Office Incumbent Assumed office:24 July 2019
• Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. In office 13 July 2016 – 9 July 2018
• Mayor of London In office: 4 May 2008 – 9 May 2016
• Member of Parliament: for Uxbridge and South Ruislip: Incumbent Assumed office:7 May 2015
• Member of Parliament for Henley In office: 7 June 2001 – 4 June 2008
• Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
• 19 June 1964 (age 57)
• Manhattan, New York City, US
• Citizenship British

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson MP (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and journalist. He is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He has been the Leader of the Conservative Party since 23 July 2019. Johnson is the Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. He has been since 2015. He represented the constituency of Henley from 2001 to 2008.

In the 2008 Mayor of London election he was elected as London's second Mayor. He stopped working as mayor to run as an MP for the House of Commons in 2015. In July 2016, Johnson became Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. He resigned this position in July 2018. This was the same day that David Davis resigned as Brexit Secretary. Jeremy Hunt became the Secretary of State for Foreign affairs and Commonwealth Affairs after Johnson.

Johnson was educated at Eton. He went to Balliol College, Oxford where he studied Classics. He began his journalism career with The Times. Later, he moved to The Daily Telegraph where he was assistant editor. He became editor of The Spectator in 1999. He was elected to the House of Commons in the 2001 general election. He became one of the most famous politicians in the country. He has also written several books.

Johnson served on the Conservative front bench under Michael Howard for a short time. He was the Shadow Minister for the Arts from April 2004 until November 2004. He was sacked after allegedly lying about a sex scandal. Johnson returned to the front bench when David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party in 2005. Johnson became Shadow Minister for Higher Education. He resigned as editor of The Spectator to spend more time on his new role.

On 26 August 2014, Johnson said he would stand as Conservative candidate for MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in the 2015 General Election. He won the election. He did not run for the 2016 London mayoral election. Labour candidate Sadiq Khan became the new London mayor.

Johnson was in support of Brexit during the 2016 membership referendum. The vote decided that the United Kingdom would leave the European Union. Theresa May became the new Prime Minister. She chose Johnson as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in July 2016. Johnson left May's cabinet in July 2018 after her Brexit agreements failed.

Johnson became the party leader in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. On 20 June, Johnson and Jeremy Hunt became the last two candidates in the election. He became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 24 July 2019. The Conservatives won the 2019 United Kingdom general election on 13 December 2019. Johnson continued as Prime Minister.

In early April 2020, Johnson was very sick due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned to work in late April and as always have a chilled day from the Viking