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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was born on 19 June 1964 in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, [2] [3] to Stanley Johnson, then studying economics at Columbia University, [4] and Charlotte Fawcett, [5] an artist, whose father Sir James Fawcett, was a prominent barrister and president of the European Commission of Human Rights ...
This is a list of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by age. This table can be sorted to display prime ministers of the United Kingdom by name, order of office, date of birth, age at appointment, length of retirement, or lifespan. Age at appointment is determined by the day a prime minister assumed office for the first time. Length of retirement is determined from the day a prime minister ...
The 2009 docudrama When Boris Met Dave features a scene recreating the photograph, [17] which The Guardian published as a substitute—citing the copyright issue—in a collection of real photographs of Johnson and Cameron together. [21] The programme dramatized the antics of the Bullingdon Club at the time when Johnson and Cameron were members ...
On 29 August 2019, Johnson suffered the first ministerial resignation of his premiership, when Lord Young of Cookham resigned as a government whip in the House of Lords. [ 51 ] On 3 September 2019, Phillip Lee crossed the floor and defected to the Liberal Democrats following disagreement with Johnson's Brexit policy.
Young co-produced and co-wrote When Boris Met Dave (2009), a drama-documentary for Channel 4 about the relationship between Eton and Oxford University contemporaries Mayor Boris Johnson and Conservative Party Leader PM David Cameron. It was first broadcast on More4 on 7 October 2009 and later shown on Channel 4. [97]
When Boris Met Dave is a docudrama of 2009 which investigates the shared past of David Cameron and Boris Johnson who, at the time of broadcast, were two of Britain's most influential Conservative Party politicians – Cameron as Conservative leader and Johnson as Mayor of London.
Johnson has been the subject of British music and music media: Singer Robbie Williams portrays Boris Johnson in the music video for his 2020 festive single "Can't Stop Christmas". [100] Johnson was the focus of 2020 song "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt" by Kunt and the Gang, [101] which reached number five on the UK Singles Chart. He was also ...
A year later, the young Brassington starred opposite Cate Blanchett as Charles II, Archduke of Austria in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and in 2009 he followed up his part as Blair with a portrayal of the then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as a younger man in When Boris Met Dave, an account of how Johnson and David Cameron's lives became ...