Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson is mayor of London and a former editor of the Spectator and former MP for Henley-on-Thames.

Born in New York and educated at Eton, Boris was a classicist at Balliol. He is the Ex-President of the Oxford Union and had won the Blackenbury scholarship before he set foot in a successful career in journalism. Boris was initially at the Times, and then assistant editor of the Telegraph in 1995 and in 1999 was promoted to the editor of the Spectator in the place of Dominic Lawson.

Under his leadership The Spectator continued to be Britain's most successful political weekly, with a circulation of 60,000 and an annual profit of £1m.
The blond-haired MP, unlike some of his "young fogey" counterparts, is suave, good-humoured and immensely witty. In addition to being an after dinner speaker Boris also speaks on media and politics.

He writes a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph, is a regular guest on TV and radio shows - he was the castaway on Desert Islands Discs in Autumn 2005 - and had his first novel published in 2004. In 2008 he researched his family tree for the BBC's "Who do you think you are?" and discovered he could be related to all the main royal families in Europe, although this has not been proved through DNA science.

In 2008 he successfully unseated Ken Livingstone to become the first conservative mayor of London.

He is married with four children and his father Stanley Johnson, a former MEP.

Not currently taking on speaking engagments due to the mayoralty.

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