[173] Duncan Smith was removed from his position in November 2003 and replaced by Michael Howard; Howard deemed Johnson to be the most popular Conservative politician with the electorate and appointed him vice-chairman of the party, responsible for overseeing its electoral campaign. The BBC then reported, however, that an official complaint and subsequent investigation into Pincher, while he was at the Foreign Office (July 2019 to February 2020), had confirmed his misconduct, and that Johnson had been made aware of the matter at that time. One quarter of those appointed were women, and the Cabinet set a record for ethnic minority representation, with four secretaries of state and two additional ministers coming from minority backgrounds. Mr Johnson says his great-great-grandmother, a Circassian slave from a region in southern Russia, was sold to his great-great-grandfather after she fled from war to Turkey in around 1862. [592], Steve Baker said Johnson's, "marvellous contrition only lasted as long as it took to get out of the headmaster's study". [154] In his first four years as MP, he attended just over half of the Commons votes; in his second term, this declined to 45 per cent. [77] Finally, Johnson was awarded an upper second-class degree,[78][79] and was deeply unhappy he did not receive a first.[80]. [107][108] He then entered a relationship with a childhood friend, Marina Wheeler, who had moved to Brussels in 1990,[109] and in May 1993, they were married at Horsham in Sussex,[110] soon after which Marina gave birth to a daughter. [126] When the phone conversation was published in 1995, Johnson stated that ultimately he had not obliged Guppy's request. [295] The London Assembly began its own investigation but paused it at the IOPC's request to avoid overlap. [684], During the 20212022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Johnson's government warned the Russian Government not to invade Donbas. [66] To his later regret, he joined the Old Etonian-dominated Bullingdon Club, an exclusive drinking society notorious for acts of vandalism on host premises. Moscow has responded . [361], In September 2017, he was criticised for reciting lines from Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay while visiting a Myanmar temple; the British ambassador, who was with him, suggested it was "not appropriate". [92] A strong critic of the integrationist Commission president Jacques Delors, he established himself as one of the city's few Eurosceptic journalists. [23] They returned to their native England in September 1964, so that Charlotte could study at the University of Oxford;[24] during this time she lived with her son in Summertown, a suburb of Oxford, and in September 1965 she gave birth to a daughter, Rachel. [176][177], In November 2004, tabloids revealed that since 2000 Johnson had been having an affair with Spectator columnist Petronella Wyatt, resulting in two terminated pregnancies. 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The European Parliament Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt said there would be no further negotiation on the trade deal unless the UK agreed to pay the entire sum. [559] Following the announcement by opposition parties that they would boycott the new committee, and faced with a backlash in the media and from MPs of all parties, the government reversed its position and announced that a new vote would take place on whether Paterson should be suspended. [639] He remained as prime minister until September, while the Conservative Party chose a new leader. The restrictions, called "Plan B", were a partial renewal of previous measures due to the increased incidence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said, "If the latest reports are true, it would mean that not only did the prime minister attend parties, but he had a hand in instigating at least one of them. As a kid I was extremely spotty, extremely nerdy and horribly swotty. [844] His younger siblings are Rachel Johnson, a writer and journalist; Leo Johnson, a partner specialising in sustainability at accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers;[845] and Jo Johnson, ex-minister of state and former Conservative MP for Orpington, who resigned from his brother's government in September 2019[459] and is now a member of the House of Lords. "[320], Following the victory of the "Leave" campaign, Cameron resigned as Conservative leader and prime minister. [127] In 1999, he was also given a column reviewing new cars in the magazine GQ. [705][706] Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Johnson took part in Charles III's Accession Council, and many other funeral-related events. [797][798], Johnson owns a 1.3million buy-to-let townhouse in Camberwell, South London. [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". The following day, Johnson was elected leader with 92,153 votes (66%) to Hunt's 46,656 (34%). [215] Controversy erupted when he was questioned about his Daily Telegraph fee on BBC's HARDtalk; there, he referred to the 250,000 as "chicken feed", something that was widely condemned, given that this was roughly 10 times the average yearly wage for a British worker. [183] After Cameron was elected, he appointed Johnson as the shadow higher education minister, acknowledging his popularity among students. [293] The Sunday Times said in September 2019 that Johnson failed to declare his personal relationship as a conflict of interest. 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We have changed tack once and we can change once again". [126] In the conversation, Guppy said that his criminal activities involving insurance fraud were being investigated by News of the World journalist Stuart Collier, and he asked Johnson to provide him with Collier's private address, seeking to have the latter beaten to the extent of "a couple of black eyes and a cracked rib or something like that". [425], Also on 28August 2019, Johnson declared he had asked the Queen to prorogue parliament from 10September, narrowing the window in which parliament could block a no-deal Brexit and causing a political controversy. . 11. Boris Johnson's family tree grew larger in December, as he and his third wife, Carrie Johnson, welcomed their second child together. [448][449] The mass dismissal was the most extensive postwar Cabinet reorganisation without a change in the ruling party, exceeding the seven Cabinet ministers dismissed in the "Night of the Long Knives" of 1962. "[546], On 28 May Lord Geidt published a report on the allegations in an annexe to the register of interests. [847] She stood as a candidate for Change UK in the 2019 European Elections. Wolfson said Johnson had failed to address supply chain issues. Starmer was DPP in the years immediately prior to Savile's death but there is no evidence he was involved in the decision to not have him prosecuted. [612] The result was described by Keir Starmer as the "beginning of the end" for Johnson's premiership. [754] He proposed building a bridge or tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland, but has since scrapped this initiative. [271] He also maintained extensive personal contacts throughout the British media,[272] which resulted in widespread favourable press coverage of his administration. However, the Foreign Office rejected the advisory opinion. 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