[81] According to later biographer Sonia Purnell who was Johnson's Brussels deputy[92] he helped make Euroscepticism "an attractive and emotionally resonant cause for the Right", whereas it had been associated previously with the British Left. [380][381] The authority rejected the suggestion that it was quibbling over newspaper headlines and not Johnson's actual words. [179][180] In July 2005, Who's the Daddy?, a play by The Spectator's theatre critics Toby Young and Lloyd Evans being performed at Islington's King's Head Theatre, satirised the scandal. ", "Coronavirus: What are the lockdown measures across Europe? [411][412], Johnson initially pledged to cut income tax for earners of more than 50,000 by raising the 40% tax threshold to 80,000, but backed away from this plan in June 2019 after coming under criticism in a televised BBC debate. [264][265] Similarly, his claim that Metropolitan Police numbers had increased was characterised as untrue,[264] but the fact-checkers at Full Fact felt that both Johnson's and his critics' positions are defensible. [423] The government subsequently announced 2.1bn of funding to prepare for a no-deal Brexit on 31October. [452], Shortly after he had become prime minister, Johnson's government announced increased public sector spending. [606] Most of the claimed "new" hospitals are not entire new hospitals however, but instead new wings or refurbishments of existing hospitals[606] and only six will be completed by 2025. In 2013, the Court of Appeal discharged an injunction banning reporting of his daughter's existence. Moscow has responded . 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Label. He was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1986. [308], In February 2016, Johnson endorsed Vote Leave in the "Out" campaign for the 2016 European Union membership referendum. TALLINN Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, one of war-torn Ukraine's firmest European friends, must navigate a tricky general election on Sunday to maintain her country's ultra-hard stance against Russia. [298] He later called Trump's comments "ill informed" and "complete and utter nonsense", adding that "the only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump". [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). Symonds had worked for the Conservative party since 2009 and worked on Johnson's 2012 campaign to be re-elected as mayor. In July 2020, Boris Johnson made his younger brother Jo a peer. But I'm not going to talk about it. Here is a summary of findings of Russian influence in Britain so far - which Boris Johnson doesn . [533][534] Johnson and Hancock denied some of Cummings' claims but declined to acknowledge others, such as Cummings claiming Johnson attempted to play down the threat of COVID-19 by saying it was "only killing 80-year-olds" during the pandemic's early stages. The selection of Boris Johnson confirms the Tory Party's increasing weakness for celebrity personalities over the dreary exigencies of politics. [457] (The whip was restored to 10 former Conservative ministers on 29October. In 1989, he became the Brussels correspondent and later political columnist for The Daily Telegraph, and from 1999 to 2005 he was the editor of The Spectator. [161] In August 2004, he backed unsuccessful impeachment procedures against Prime Minister Tony Blair for "high crimes and misdemeanours" regarding the war,[162] and in December 2006 described the invasion as "a colossal mistake and misadventure". [198], In July 2007, Johnson announced his candidacy to be the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London in the 2008 mayoral election. Boris Johnson. In the last ballot, on 20June, he reached 160 votes and was named one of the final two candidates, alongside Jeremy Hunt. 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[721] In 2012, the political scientist Tony Travers described Johnson as "a fairly classicthat is, small-statemildly eurosceptic Conservative" who, like his contemporaries Cameron and George Osborne, also embraced "modern social liberalism". Senior Tories heavily criticised him, with Alan Duncan of the Foreign Office vowing to ensure the comments marked "the political end of Boris Johnson". According to HM Land Registry documents, he bought the four-bedroom property with his then-girlfriend Carrie Symonds in July 2019. Many of the MPs involved stated that the Pincher affair had led them to change their minds on the suitability of Johnson to hold the office of prime minister. Filed July 19, 2019, 9 a.m. GMT. Sources differ on whether the marriage ended in divorce. [383], In March 2018, Johnson apologised for his "inadvertent sexism" after being criticised for calling Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry as "Lady Nugee"; Thornberry was married to Christopher Nugee but did not use his surname. MP Kim Leadbeater and Brendan Cox, the sister and husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, warned against politicians lending credence to far-right conspiracy theories. Economists of various political views, and the head of energy regulator Ofgem strongly disagreed. [833] Their son, Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson,[834] was born on 29April 2020 at University College Hospital in London. [267], Johnson championed London's financial sector and denounced what he saw as "banker bashing" following the financial crisis of 200708,[268] condemning the anti-capitalist Occupy London movement that appeared in 2011. 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