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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoris Johnson: Britain's New PM Was Born in New York City and Was a U.S. Citizen for Decades
Until the IRS Caught up With HimBoris Johnson, Britain's newly-crowned prime minister of the U.K., was born in New York City and only recently relinquished his American passport when the Internal Revenue Service chased him for unpaid taxes.
Johnson, 55, triumphed in the Conservative Party leadership contest against Jeremy Hunt, 52, the current British foreign secretary. It was a race to replace the incumbent Theresa May, who announced in May her resignation as prime minister.
May's repeated failure to pass her controversial Brexit deal through parliament ended her unpopular premiership as she lost her party's support. Johnson, a prominent supporter of Brexit, promises Britain will leave the European Union, deal or no deal, by Halloween.
Stanley Johnson, 78, father of the new prime minister, was an economics student at Columbia University in 1964 when his son was born of his first wife Charlotte Fawcett at a hospital in New York City's Upper East Side.
According to the journalist Sonia Purnell's biography of Johnson, Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition, the elder Johnson "considered it vital to secure dual US/British citizenship for their son," so the new parents registered him there.
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Boris Johnson: Britain's New PM Was Born in New York City and Was a U.S. Citizen for Decades (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jul 2019
OP
They are just saying that he was born in NYC, and that he lost citizenship because of
secondwind
Jul 2019
#2
Aristus
(66,527 posts)1. Oh great; the Brits want to blame US for BoJo.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)2. They are just saying that he was born in NYC, and that he lost citizenship because of
unpaid taxes.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)3. So can we get trump for tax evasion and also give him to the uk?
We should be willing to take Boris back if that helps the deal.
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)4. .
sagesnow
(2,824 posts)5. Born in New York, 55 years old...
Then is it conceivable that he is tRump's illegitimate son?
Can we check with Ancestry.com to see if there is any relationship between the two?
Polybius
(15,522 posts)6. I was gonna say younger brother