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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,442 posts)
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 12:43 PM Jul 2019

Boris 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 Him

Boris 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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/boris-johnson-britains-new-pm-was-born-in-new-york-city-and-was-a-us-citizen-for-decades-until-the-irs-caught-up-with-him/ar-AAEJVx1?li=BBnb7Kz
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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
Oh great; the Brits want to blame US for BoJo. Aristus Jul 2019 #1
They are just saying that he was born in NYC, and that he lost citizenship because of secondwind Jul 2019 #2
So can we get trump for tax evasion and also give him to the uk? Midnightwalk Jul 2019 #3
. dalton99a Jul 2019 #4
Born in New York, 55 years old... sagesnow Jul 2019 #5
I was gonna say younger brother Polybius Jul 2019 #6

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
2. They are just saying that he was born in NYC, and that he lost citizenship because of
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 12:48 PM
Jul 2019


unpaid taxes.

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
3. So can we get trump for tax evasion and also give him to the uk?
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 12:53 PM
Jul 2019

We should be willing to take Boris back if that helps the deal.

sagesnow

(2,824 posts)
5. Born in New York, 55 years old...
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 12:59 PM
Jul 2019

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?

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