Biography

Columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown described Johnson as "an ugly man inside and out".

His ancestral home of Kalfat, Turkey, birthplace of his patrilineal great-grandfather Ali Kemal Bey, pledged to honour Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson by sacrificing sheep in the event he visits the village.

His heritage includes, along with English, one eighth Turkish Muslim (through his father's grandfather) and one eighth Russian Jewish/Lithuanian Jewish (through his mother's grandfather), with Johnson's other ancestry groups being Swiss-German, German, French, European Royal, Irish, Cornish, Dutch, Belgian, Scottish, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish. His maternal grandmother's parents were Americans who moved to the U.K., and Johnson was born in New York City, while his English parents were staying there. He was raised in London.

After the Duke of Grafton and Anthony Eden, he is the third divorced man to become a British Prime Minister.

In December 2019, he won an 80-seat majority in the general election against Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, which was the biggest majority won by a UK prime minister since Tony Blair in 2001 and the biggest majority for a Conservative prime minister since Margaret Thatcher beat Neil Kinnock in 1987. He increased the Conservatives Seat Tally from 317 in the June 2017 Election to 365 seats. His 13,966,565 vote tally is the highest figure ever won by a British Prime Minister in the 21st Century and the highest for a Conservative Prime Minister since 1992 when John Major won 336 seats and 14,093,007 votes. The 2019 UK General Election is the sixth successive General Election in which the Conservatives increased their vote tally.

[in explanation for late work]: Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

I'm a Jiffy disposal unit when it comes to leftovers. Apple cores: count me in. Fish heads: I'm your man, especially the eyes, yum yum.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

[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.