Boris Johnson Biography: Net worth, family, life, history and reason for resignation

Boris Johnson Biography: Boris Johnson announced his resignation as the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party on July 7, 2022. It further paved a way for the selection of a new Prime Minister after dozens of ministers quit the scandal-hit government of Johnson. While announcing the resignation, Boris Johnson said that it is clearly the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party and that there should a new leader of that party, and therefore a new Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson is a British Politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. Johnson announced his pending resignation, after a record number of resignations from his government, on July 7, 2022, remaining at his position until a new leader is elected.

Boris Johnson is mainly known for re-opening Brexit negotiations during his tenure as the Prime Minister of Britain in 2019. Later on January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom also withdrew from the European Union, entering into a transition period and trade negotiations leading to the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

Boris Johnson Biography

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Boris Johnson Resign: What is the reason for resignation?

Boris John announced on July 7, 2022, that he will resign as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a slew of resignations from his top team in protest at his leadership. The former Prime Minister had been clinging on to power despite a wave of more than 50 government resignations, expressing defiance.

Boris Johnson was facing a culture of scandal for months which also included lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street. The Prime Minister who also received a police fine for the COVID lockdown breaking the ‘Partygate’ Affair, also faces a Parliamentary probe on whether he lied to MPs about the revelations.

Boris Johnson Family

Boris Johnson was born on June 19, 1964 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City to a 23-years old Stanley Johnson and 22 years old Charlotte Fawcett. Boris Johnson’s parents had married in 1963 before moving to the United States.

In September 1964, the family returned to their native England, so that Charlotte could study at the Oxford University, In 1965, the family moved to North England and in February 1966, they again relocated to Washington D.C.

Later in 1969, Boris Johnson’s family again returned to England and settled into the West Nethercote Farm, near Winsford in Somerset.

Boris Johnson Education

Boris Johnson gained King’s Scholarship to study at Elton College, a boarding school near Windsor in Berkshire. He won a scholarship to read Literae Humaniores at Balliol College, Oxford. It is a four-year course in the study of the classics, ancient literature and Classical Philosophy.

Matriculating at Oxford University in later 1983, Johnson was one of a generation of the Oxford undergraduates who were later to dominate British Politics and media in the second decade of the 21st Century; among them were David Cameron, Michael Gove, William Hague, Jeremy Hunt, and Nick Boles. They all went on to become senior Conservative Party Politicians.

Boris Johnson Personal Life

Boris Johnson married Allegra Mostyn-Owen in 1987. The couple’s marriage ended in divorce or annulment in 1993. 12 days later, Johnson married Marine Wheeler, a barrister, and daughter of the journalist and broadcaster Charles Wheeler. They have four children together- Lara Lettice, Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches and Theodore Apollo.

In September 2018, Johnson and Wheeler issued a statement confirming that after 25 years of marriage they separated several months ago and had begun the divorce proceedings.

On May 29, 2021, Boris Johnson married for the third time to Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony attended only by 30 people.

Boris Johnson Political Career: Tenure as Prime Minister of Britain

On July 24, 2019, the day after Boris Johnson’s election as Conservative Party leader, Queen Elizabeth II accepted Theresa May’s resignation and appointed Johnson as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The move made Boris Johnson the second Prime Minister of the country to be born outside of the British Isles, after fellow Conservative Bonar Law. Johnson is also the first to be born outside the British territories.

Brexit Policy

In his first speech as the Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson said that the UK will leave the European Union on October 31, 2019 with or without a deal. He also promised to remove the Irish backstop from the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

2019 General Election

In October 2019, British Parliament was dissolved and an election was called on December 12. The election resulted in a conservative party winning 43.6% of the vote and the Parliamentary landslide majority of the 80 seats.

With the win, Johnson’s second term as the Prime Minister of Britain started in December 2019 and he reshuffled his cabinet on February 13, 2020. Johnson conducted another reshuffle of his cabinet in September 2021.

COVID-19 Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic emerged as a serious crisis within the first few months of Boris Johnson’s second term in 2020. Throughout the pandemic, Johnson also made a number of policy decisions to curb the pandemic.

What was the Partygate Scandal?

In early December 2021, reports started emerging that the social gatherings of government and the conservative party staff in Downing street had taken place ahead of the 2020 Christmas against COVID regulations. However, Johnson and a spokesperson denied these allegations.

Boris Johnson Awards and Honours

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