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Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson is a British politician and journalist. As of June 2009, Johnson is the incumbent Mayor of London having been elected to that position in 2008, defeating then Labour Mayor Ken Livingstone. Nicknamed ‘BoJo’ by various media sources, Johnson was the editor of The Spectator magazine from 1991 to 2005, when he resigned to concentrate on his position as Shadow Minister for Higher Education for the Tory Party. Johnson is known for his distinctive appearance and personality.

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Revealed: bust-up with Boris made Lord Rogers quit Boris Johnson 'ups London tourism by £50m' Arts Council chief tells Mayor: Stop meddling Selector: My severe misgivings over Mayor’s choice for arts job 'Knight on shining bicycle' Boris Johnson chases off attackers Boris Johnson's winter Games mission Mayor threatens 'cockroach' bankers with windfall tax Huge bus and Tube fare rises plus £10 C-charge

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Revealed: bust-up with Boris made Lord Rogers quit

20.11.09
Extraordinary row between Boris Johnson and one of the world's leading architects led to resignation over controversial Chelsea Barracks redevelopment... more

Police ‘will quit’ if Tories create elected bosses

20.11.09
One of Britain’s top policemen clashed with David Cameron over Tory plans for locally elected police chiefs... more

Foreign buyers snapping up ‘too dear’ London homes

20.11.09
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The right choices for a humbled EU

20.11.09
As with so many decisions in a body composed of 25 member states, the choice of Herman van Rompuy as EU President and Catherine Ashton as EU foreign minister is a messy and inoffensive compromise... more

Truth about the sex trade from Edward Kienholz

19.11.09
Edward Kienholz is the forgotten father of installation art - and his evocation of the red light district of Amsterdam captures the truth about the sex trade... more

£50bn down the line, trains are worse than ever

19.11.09
Far from the grandiose promises of ministers and the Queen's Speech, there's a more simple statement that sums up the start of the day for thousands in the nation's capital... more

Boris hails success in helping homeless

18.11.09
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Mayor told his £1.7bn cuts will mean fewer buses and axed routes

18.11.09
Commuters warned they faced cuts to bus services as Boris Johnson discloses he is slashing £1.7 billion from his transport budget... more

Where the capital’s bendy buses go to die

18.11.09
Parked up in tight ranks, it is the graveyard of the bendy bus... more

Home of cricket gets a £400m refit but, thank the Lord’s, keeps its name

18.11.09
Plans unveiled for the £400 million redevelopment of Lord’s cricket ground, as owners deny selling its name... more

Ten months to delete DNA

17.11.09
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Boris Johnson 'ups London tourism by £50m'

17.11.09
Mayor Boris Johnson said that he won £50million in tourism trade for London by spending £2million... more

Knife mob stab terrified boy, 16, at school bus stop

17.11.09
Boy of 16 on his way home from school suffered a 'horrific' slash wound across the stomach during an attack on a bus in north London... more

Boris accused of muscling in on councils' green projects

16.11.09
Boris Johnson accused of piggy-backing on council green initiatives as he announced the schemes he expects to transform London over the next decade and beyond... more

Arts Council chief tells Mayor: Stop meddling

13.11.09
Head of the national Arts Council calls on politicians to stop meddling in the arts in a thinly veiled attack on Mayor Boris Johnson... more

Selector: My severe misgivings over Mayor’s choice for arts job

12.11.09
Row over London’s top arts job reignited after one of the people responsible for selecting the candidate accused Boris Johnson of turning the process into a 'waste of time'... more

'Knight on shining bicycle' Boris Johnson chases off attackers

04.11.09
NEW: Boris Johnson reveals how he reacted instinctively when he rescued a woman who was being attacked by hoodies armed with a metal bar... more

Get ready to scramble now pedestrians can cross Oxford Circus, Tokyo-style

02.11.09
Oxford Circus has been remodelled on one of Japan's most famous street crossings in a bid to ease pedestrian congestion... more

Boris Johnson's winter Games mission

27.10.09
Boris Johnson announces he will attend the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in a bid to learn lessons for London... more

Met ‘must rethink’ plan to put machine gun police on street

23.10.09
Met under pressure to reverse its decision to begin armed patrols on some London streets... more

Cyclists and lorry drivers to swap places in Boris’s safety campaign

23.10.09
Lorry drivers will be forced to undergo cycle safety training as part of Boris Johnson’s plans to get more Londoners onto bikes... more

Boris pushes for new law to curb strikes on the Tube

22.10.09
Boris Johnson is set to urge the next Tory government to introduce tough anti-strike laws in a bid to curb stoppages of the Tube... more

Cricket to be an Olympic winner with 2012 legacy

21.10.09
Cricket chiefs are in talks with Boris Johnson about a move to the Olympic stadium after the 2012 Games... more

Mayor threatens 'cockroach' bankers with windfall tax

19.10.09
Boris Johnson is to call in leading City bankers to warn them that they face a Tory windfall tax unless they curb this year's 'ginormous' bonus payouts... more

David Cameron must decide on 'Boris island'

19.10.09
Tory leader David Cameron was under pressure to declare whether he would support Thames Estuary airport after a report commissioned by Mayor Boris Johnson said constructing it was 'technically feasible'... more

Huge bus and Tube fare rises plus £10 C-charge

15.10.09
Latest: Boris Johnson blames the recession as he imposes huge rises in bus and Tube fares and a 25 per cent increase to the congestion charge ... more

Service cuts and higher charges are shape of things to come

15.10.09
Setting fares is difficult at the best of times. At the depth of a recession it becomes a whole lot worse... more

Boris repays £1,200 to ‘get on with life’

15.10.09
Boris Johnson has been ordered to pay back £1,266 of expenses he claimed while an MP... more

Mayor accused of dirty twix over City Hall’s missing chocolate

14.10.09
Boris Johnson faced outcry from his staff over disappearance of chocolate from City Hall's canteen... more

Boris to axe Met's £2m-a-year car perks

14.10.09
Senior police officers face being stripped of their chauffeur-driven cars under a City Hall economy drive... more

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  • Facts
  • Johnson has appeared on numerous television shows which include – Have I Got News for You, Top Gear, Room 101, The Dream of Rome, The Dame Edna Treatment, Who Do You Think You Are?, and After Rome.
  • Johnson is a graduate of Eton College and Oxford University (Balliol College).
  • Before becoming editor of The Spectator, Johnson worked at The Times, and The Daily Telegraph.
  • In August 2008 Johnson broke from the tradition that those in public office not openly comment on other nation’s elections when he publicly endorsed Senator Barack Obama for the position of President of the United States.

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