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Johnson appointed his Cabinet on 24July 2019, [452] dismissing 11 senior ministers and accepting the resignation of six others. [453] [454] The mass dismissal was the most extensive postwar Cabinet reorganisation without a change in the ruling party. [455] [456] Last Thursday evening it emerged Chris Pincher had resigned as deputy chief whip, writing to the PM saying he had "drunk far too much" the night before. In late August 2019 he asked the Queen to prorogue parliament - meaning the Commons would not sit for five weeks between 9 September and 14 October. The deadline for the end of the UK's Brexit negotiations with the EU was 31 October. When he returned to London five years later, Mr Johnson became a regular Telegraph columnist and began writing for The Spectator. Image: Boris Johnson speaks at a rally with Priti Patel and Michael Gove (right) in Preston town centre, Lancashire, as part of the Vote Leave EU referendum campaign

At a parliamentary select committee in 2017, he condemned her conviction for espionage but added that she was "simply teaching people journalism" - something her family said was entirely untrue. His decision to demand his party vote against the suspension of fellow Brexiteer and former cabinet minister Owen Paterson, who had breached paid lobbying rules, caused outrage - prompting an embarrassing U-turn and apology.It was around this time that the future PM started appearing on the BBC's quiz show Have I Got News For You. Chris Pincher resigned as deputy chief whip, writing to the PM saying he had "drunk far too much" the night before. Johnson gained a King's Scholarship to study at Eton College, a boarding school near Windsor in Berkshire. [52] Arriving in the autumn term of 1977, [53] he began using his middle name Boris rather than his first name Alexander, [54] and developed "the eccentric English persona" for which he became famous. [55] He denounced his Catholic faith and became an Anglican, joining the Church of England. [56] School reports complained about his idleness, complacency, and lateness, [57] but he was popular and well known at Eton. [55] See also: COVID-19 contracts in the United Kingdom and COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom Johnson delivering a press conference on COVID-19, 31 July 2020 Days after the force launched its investigation probe, Russia invaded Ukraine - shifting the focus away from partygate and leaving many previous critics of the PM changing their minds on the timing of any efforts to oust him.

Throughout his time as foreign secretary, Boris Johnson made it clear he favoured a harder break from the European Union than some others in government were pushing for.Eventually Mr Johnson found himself unable to avoid an apology for having attended at least one of those events himself. After Russia began the world's first COVID-19 vaccination programme on 5December 2020, [518] Britain began its programme three days later. [519] NHS workers successfully ensured that half of UK adults had received at least their first vaccine dose by 20March 2021. [520]

The speed with which the situation became untenable was dizzying - most obviously for Mr Johnson himself - as he appeared to be almost in denial as his premiership fell apart around him.

Johnson's visit to Turkey from 25to 27September 2016 was somewhat tense because he had won Douglas Murray's offensive poetry competition about the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, four months earlier. [342] When questioned by a journalist whether he would apologise for the poem, Johnson dismissed the matter as "trivia". [343] Johnson pledged to help Turkey join the EU and expressed support for Erdogan's government. [344] In 2005 Mr Johnson resigned as editor of The Spectator after being offered a return to the shadow front bench as higher education spokesman by the new Conservative leader, David Cameron.