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boston bean

(36,217 posts) Tue Sep 17, 2019, 08:32 AM Sep 2019

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BORIS JOHNSON: BRITAIN'S NEW PM WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY AND WAS A U.S. CITIZEN FOR DECADES--UNTIL T

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.

https://www.newsweek.com/boris-johnson-us-citizen-irs-born-new-york-1449974

Article from July, but new to me.

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BORIS JOHNSON: BRITAIN'S NEW PM WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY AND WAS A U.S. CITIZEN FOR DECADES--UNTIL T (Original Post) boston bean Sep 2019 OP

AHA!!! atreides1 Sep 2019 #1

So is Britain now a US colony? malaise Sep 2019 #2

so, is he dump's cousin? 5X Sep 2019 #3

Blovis and Butthair ! eppur_se_muova Sep 2019 #4

a little more detail melm00se Sep 2019 #5

atreides1

(16,063 posts)

1. AHA!!!

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2019, 08:36 AM

Sep 2019

So the UK is the 51st State...

malaise

(268,598 posts)

2. So is Britain now a US colony?

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2019, 08:53 AM

Sep 2019

And if so, who owns the crown jewels - the Con wants to know - he really really wants that stuff.

5X

(3,972 posts)

3. so, is he dump's cousin?

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2019, 08:58 AM

Sep 2019

eppur_se_muova

(36,246 posts)

4. Blovis and Butthair !

Reply to 5X (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 17, 2019, 10:47 AM

Sep 2019

?

melm00se

(4,984 posts)

5. a little more detail

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2019, 11:09 AM

Sep 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/08/boris-johnson-renounces-us-citizenship-record-2016-uk-foreign-secretary

Johnson was born in New York when his parents worked there, but has not lived there since he was five years old.

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