Boris Johnson is a British politician in the Conservative Party and the former Mayor of London. Due to his public school, blustering, comedic style, he is generally either loved or loathed by members of the British public.
Is a British Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley-upon-Thames and an outspoken Eurosceptic.
Studied at Eton college and read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. During his time at Oxford he was the president of the Oxford Union, a prestigious role held by many top British politicians.
March 2004: Nominated for a best entertainment BAFTA following his famously bumbling performances hosting "Have I Got News for You" . He was, ironically, up against regular panellist Paul Merton for the same award.
Son of Stanley Johnson.
Son-in-law of Charles Wheeler.
Brother of Leo Johnson and Rachel Johnson.
In May 2008, he became mayor of London, England. He was re-elected in 2012 and stepped down in May 2016 when his second term expired.
In March 2016 he revealed on ITV that on a visit to New York, a young girl mistook him for 2016 Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump.
Fellow Conservative MP Kenneth Clarke described him as a Nicer Donald Trump.
He succeeded fellow Conservative MP Philip Hammond as Britains Foreign Secretary following Theresa Mays Accession as Britains 54th Prime Minister.
Often seen riding his bicycle.
He won 1,000 in a poetry contest by The Spectator Magazine for writing a poem which was deemed offensive to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Was commonly touted as a future leader of the Conservative Party. Following Britains Vote to leave the European Union on June 23 2016 he announced that he would not run for the Conservative Party Leadership and Prime Minister. His decision gave Home Secretary Theresa May a free run. On June 28 2016 May announced her candidacy for the Conservative Party Leadership and Prime Minister, racking up support among the Party Faithful. The Contest was abruptly ended when her rival Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the contest thus Theresa May became Prime Minister on July 13 2016.
He is of Turkish Ancestry on his Fathers Side of the family, being a great-grandson of liberal Ottoman Journalist Ali Kemal.
UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2016-).
British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. (2015-).
His Ancestral home of Kalfat, Turkey, birthplace of his great-grandfather Ali Kemal, pledged to honour Boris Johnson by sacrificing sheep in the event he visits the village.
[in explanation for late work]: Dark forces dragged me away from the,keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
[while trapped on a zip-line while celebrating an Olympic gold medal],Get me a rope. Get me a ladder. I think the brakes got stuck.
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
To rinse the gutters of public life, you need a gutter press.
They should cool their porridge, save their breath, put their shoulders,to the wheel, all hands to the mast, and all shoot from the same trench,- to mix my metaphors.
[on gay marriage] You can take your partner up the Arcelor. . . and marry,him.
Or whatever.
There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain—and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them. .
