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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He was previously Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.
Ideologically, Johnson has been described by himself and others as a "One-Nation Tory".[1] [2] [3] In 2012, the political scientist Tony Travers described Johnson as "a fairly classic—that is, small-state—mildly eurosceptic Conservative" who, like his contemporaries David Cameron and George Osborne, also embraced "modern social liberalism". [4]
On 6 June 2022, a vote of confidence was held amongst Conservative Party MPs on the prime minister, Boris Johnson 's, leadership of their party. Johnson won the vote with the support of 211 Conservative members of Parliament, 58.8% of the total. Out of 359 MPs, 148 (41.2%) voted against him.
Following the fifth ballot of Conservative MPs on 20 June, the final two candidates, Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson, were invited to take place in a series of hustings organised by the party. Each of the sixteen events was held in a different region of the country. [ 216 ]
During this period there were five Conservative Prime Ministers: David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak. The initial period of this time, primarily under the premiership of David Cameron, was marked by the ongoing effects of the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the implementation of austerity measures in response.
The governing Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats, [n 5] a net gain of 48, on 43.6 per cent of the popular vote, the highest percentage for any party since the 1979 general election, [4] though with a narrower popular vote margin than that achieved by the Labour Party over ...
[15] [16] Boris Johnson (a key person in the Vote Leave campaign who had served as the Mayor of London and had also served as Foreign Secretary) had already confirmed at a business event in Manchester days earlier that he would run for Conservative Party leader if May were to resign.
The July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election was triggered by Boris Johnson's announcement on 7 July 2022 that he would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following a series of political controversies.