Boris Johnson trivia: 95 facts about the new British Prime Minister!

Boris Johnson was named the new Prime Minister of England after the departure of Theresa May!

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the new Prime Minister!

1. His full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
2. He was born on 19 June 1964
3. He is a British politician who is Prime minister-designate of the United Kingdom
4. He has been Leader of the Conservative Party since 23 July 2019
5. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015
6. And was the MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008
7. He was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016
8. And from 2016 to 2018 he served as Foreign Secretary
9. Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative and has formerly been associated with both economically and socially liberal policies
10. He was born in New York City to wealthy upper-middle class British parents
11. Johnson was educated at the European School, Brussels I, Ashdown House, and Eton College
12. He read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford
13. There he was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1986
14. He began his career in journalism at The Times
15. He was sacked for falsifying a quotation
16. He later became The Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent
17. With his articles exerting a strong influence on the growing Eurosceptic sentiment among the British right-wing
18. He was eventually made assistant editor of the Telegraph in 1994
19. In 1999, he left the Telegraph to become editor of The Spectator
20. A role he would hold until 2005
21. He was elected MP for Henley in 2001
22. And largely adhered to the Conservatives’ party line during his first period in Parliament
23. He did, however, adopt a more socially liberal stance on issues like LGBT rights
24. He was later selected to be the Conservative candidate for the 2008 London mayoral election
25. Johnson defeated Labour incumbent Ken Livingstone in the election
26. He subsequently resigned his seat in the House of Commons
27. During his first term as Mayor of London, he banned alcohol consumption on the city’s public transport
28. And introduced the New Routemaster buses, cycle hire scheme, and Thames cable car
29. In 2012, he was re-elected Mayor
30. Again defeating Livingstone
31. During his second term he oversaw the 2012 Olympics
32. In 2015, he returned to Parliament as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip
33. Stepping down as Mayor the following year
34. In 2016, Johnson was a prominent figure in the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union
35. Becoming a leading figure in the successful Vote Leave campaign
36. He later declined to run in the party leadership election immediately following the referendum
37. Despite speculation that he would
38. After Theresa May won the leadership, she appointed Johnson Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
39. He served in this position for two years
40. Before resigning in protest at May’s approach to Brexit
41. Criticising the Chequers Agreement
42. Johnson subsequently stood in the leadership election that followed May’s own resignation
43. And on 23 July 2019, he was elected Leader of the Conservative Party
44. He is expected to take office as Prime Minister the following day
45. Johnson is a controversial figure within British politics and journalism
46. Supporters have praised him as an entertaining, humorous, and popular figure
47. With an appeal stretching beyond traditional Conservative voters
48. Conversely, he has been criticised by figures on both the left and the right
49. Who have accused him of elitism, cronyism, dishonesty, laziness, and using racist and homophobic language
50. Johnson is the subject of several biographies and a number of fictionalised portrayals
51. Johnson was portrayed by Will Barton in the 2017 BBC-produced drama Theresa vs. Boris: How May Became PM
52. And by Richard Goulding in the 2019 HBO and Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War
53. Johnson is the eldest of the four children
54. His father is Stanley Johnson
55. He was a former Conservative Member of the European Parliament and employee of the European Commission and the World Bank
56. And his mother is the painter Charlotte Johnson Wahl
57. She was the daughter of Sir James Fawcett, a barrister and president of the European Commission of Human Rights
58. His younger siblings are Rachel Johnson, a writer and journalist
59. Leo Johnson, a partner specialising in sustainability at accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers
60. And Jo Johnson, the former Minister of State for Universities and Science and Conservative MP for Orpington
61. Johnson’s stepmother, Jenny, the second wife of his father Stanley, is the stepdaughter of Teddy Sieff, the former chairman of Marks & Spencer
62. In April 2017, Rachel Johnson joined the Liberal Democrats in protest against Conservative Brexit policies
63. She was a member of the Conservatives between 2008 and 2011
64. Johnson had dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States
65. Since he was born in New York City to English parents
66. In 2014, Johnson acknowledged he was disputing a demand for capital gains tax from the US tax authorities
67. Which ultimately he paid
68. In February 2015, he announced his intention to give up US citizenship to demonstrate his loyalty to the UK
69. And in 2016 he renounced his US citizenship
70. Johnson is a fluent speaker of French and Italian
71. And has a good grasp of German, Spanish and Latin
72. Frequently using classical references in his newspaper columns and speeches
73. In 1987, he married Allegra Mostyn-Owen
74. She is the daughter of the art historian William Mostyn-Owen and the Italian writer Gaia Servadio
75. The marriage was dissolved in 1993
76. A couple of weeks later he married Marina Wheeler
77. A barrister and daughter of journalist and broadcaster Charles Wheeler and his wife, Dip Singh
78. Five weeks later, Wheeler and Johnson’s first child was born
79. The Wheeler and Johnson families have known each other for decades
80. And Marina Wheeler was at the European School, Brussels I at the same time as her future husband
81. They have four children: two daughters and two sons
82. In April 2006, the News of the World alleged that Johnson was having an affair with the journalist Anna Fazackerley
83. The pair refused to comment and shortly after Johnson began employing Fazackerley
84. In 2009, Johnson fathered a daughter with Helen MacIntyre, an arts consultant
85. The child’s existence was the subject of legal action in 2013
86. With the Court of Appeal quashing an injunction seeking to ban reporting of her existence
87. The judge ruled that the public had a right to know about Johnson’s “reckless” behaviour
88. In that court case, it was additionally claimed that Johnson has had another child out of wedlock
89. In September 2018, Johnson and Wheeler issued a statement confirming that after 25 years of marriage they had separated “several months ago”
90. And had begun the process of getting divorced
91. Johnson’s current girlfriend, Carrie Symonds, is the daughter of Matthew Symonds, co-founder of The Independent, and Josephine Mcaffee, a lawyer
92. In June 2019, Johnson said that he paints wooden crates to resemble buses as a hobby
93. In 2007 he said he had smoked cannabis before he went to university
94. He has also admitted to trying cocaine
95. The year he was named Prime Minister he was 55 years old