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By 2007 Mr Johnson had set his sights on the capital, announcing he would run for the role of London mayor. 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]

During his first administration, Johnson was embroiled in several personal scandals. After moving to a new house in Islington, he built a shed on his balcony without obtaining planning permission; after neighbours complained, he dismantled it. [222] The press also accused him of having an affair with Helen Macintyre and of fathering her child, allegations that he did not deny. [223] [224] [225] [226] Controversy arose when Johnson was accused of warning the MP Damian Green that police were planning to arrest him; Johnson denied the claims and did not face criminal charges under the Criminal Justice Act. [227] He was accused of cronyism, [228] in particular for appointing Veronica Wadley, a former Evening Standard editor who had supported him, as the chair of London's Arts Council when she was widely regarded as not being the best candidate for the position. [229] [230] [231] He was implicated in the parliamentary expenses scandal, being accused of excessive expenses claims for taxis. His deputy mayor Ian Clement was found to have misused a City Hall credit card, resulting in his resignation. [232] Before the election, Johnson published Johnson's Life of London, a work of popular history that the historian A. N. Wilson characterised as a "coded plea" for votes. [283] Many, including Mr Cameron himself, maintain to this day that Mr Johnson chose Brexit to help his career.Promising his "most fervent support" to his successor Liz Truss, Mr Johnson compared himself to Cincinnatus, who was made dictator in 458 BC to lead the battle against an invasion before returning to his farm. It was around this time that the future PM started appearing on the BBC's quiz show Have I Got News For You.

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]His articles may have stretched the truth, but they have since been credited with revitalising the cause of euroscepticism. Other candidates may have held cabinet positions - like Home Secretary Theresa May, or the former defence secretary Liam Fox - but the fight to be David Cameron's successor was seen as his to lose.

Her lawyers, Joanna Khan and Michael Oswald at Bhatt Murphy Solicitors, are arguing that the officers were in breach of human rights legislation. Flynn is seeking assurances that officers will not adopt the same approach if she wears the T-shirt at future protests and has requested an apology from the police. But as the eurozone crisis raged, member states pushed for further integration and immigration increased, he came to the view that offering a public vote on Britain's membership of the EU was necessary. It was a political saviour for Mr Johnson, coming on top of a last minute trade deal with the EU agreed days before the christmas 2020 deadline - his party's poll rating began to surge above the Labour party. 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 Describing a draft withdrawal plan as an "oven-ready deal", the prime minister set out on the campaign trail with the simple message he had been repeating in the months beforehand - vote for him to "get Brexit done".But this time, the political magic did not work. The mischievous, blundering, charismatic persona that had once been his strength had become a weakness in the eyes of his MPs. Boris Johnson was no longer seen as the winner the Conservative Party had elected him to be. Since Covid, local sentiment towards Johnson has switched, she said, from positive to distrustful. She said while the government partied in Downing Street, she and other teenagers were trapped inside. “It makes me so angry. I feel like I missed a really important part of my life.” He delivered it with uncharacteristic contrition in the Commons on 12 January this year, but even then his remorse came with the excuse that, as far as he was aware, the guidelines had always been followed. Boris was very clever at creating an image and downplaying expectations so that colleagues thought he was way off-beam, and didn't know what he was doing," The Times journalist Michael Binyon told Mr Johnson's biographer Sonia Purnell.

The Kent variant, more recently referred to as Alpha, triggered a surge of cases that put the NHS under extraordinary pressure and forced the prime minister to impose further severe restrictions for the Christmas period and throughout the first few months of 2021. It was swiftly reported that Mr Pincher was accused of groping two men at the Carlton Club, in full view of numerous Tory MPs. Other candidates may have held cabinet positions - like Home Secretary Theresa May, or the former defence Secretary Liam Fox - but the fight to be David Cameron's successor was seen as his to lose. Khan and Oswald said: “Being able to criticise politicians is fundamentally important in a democracy. The importance of freedom of speech should be particularly clear to this prime minister who has compared women in burqas to letterboxes without any criminal sanction himself.” Hours before the formal nominations closed on 30 June 2016, Mr Johnson's campaign arranged a news conference.Main article: Boris Johnson's tenure as Foreign Secretary Official portrait of Johnson as Foreign Secretary