Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (/ˈfɛfəl/;[5] born 19 June 1964) is a British

politician, author, and former journalist who has served as Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He
was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008
to 2016. Johnson was Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 2001 to
2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015.
Ideologically, he identifies as a one-nation conservative.
Johnson was born in New York City to upper-middle-class English parents
and educated at Eton College. He read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford,
where he was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1986. He began his
career in journalism at The Times newspaper, from which he was dismissed
for falsifying a quotation. Later he became the Brussels correspondent for
The Daily Telegraph newspaper, where his articles exerted a strong
influence on growing Eurosceptic sentiment on the British right. He was
promoted to be an assistant editor from 1994 to 1999, and edited The
Spectator magazine from 1999 to 2005.