Jo Johnson

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Jo Johnson (2017)

Joseph Edmund Johnson (born December 23, 1971 in London , England ) is a British Conservative Party politician and has been a member of the House of Commons for Orpington since May 6, 2010 . He was already a member of the cabinets of David Cameron and Theresa May and, since July 24, 2019, Minister of State for Energy and again Minister of State for Universities and Science in the cabinet of his brother Boris Johnson . On September 5, 2019, he announced that he would leave the cabinet and no longer run as a candidate for election to the British House of Commons. He explained his move by saying that he felt “torn between loyalty to the family and national interest” in view of the Brexit policy.

Life

Prior to being elected MP, Johnson worked for the Financial Times and Deutsche Bank .

He lives in London with his wife, Amelia Gentleman, a Guardian journalist, and their two children.

Web links

Commons : Jo Johnson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ BBC News | Election 2010 | Constituency | Orpington. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jonathan Amos: Jo Johnson is new science minister . May 11, 2015 ( bbc.com [accessed July 25, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Peter Walker Political correspondent: Ministers will not scrap 'reasonable grounds' stop and search rule . In: The Guardian . November 12, 2018, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed July 25, 2019]).
  4. ^ New cabinet: Johnson surrounds himself with like-minded people . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 25, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Jo Johnson MP - GOV.UK. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/05/jo-johnson-quits-as-mp-and-minister-citing-national-interest
  7. ↑ https://twitter.com/jojohnsonuk/status/1169555292918571008?s=21
  8. ↑ Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Who's in his cabinet? July 25, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed July 26, 2019]).
Boris Johnson I and Boris Johnson II cabinets
Cabinet members

Boris Johnson  • Stephen Barclay  • Natalie Evans, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park  • Robert Buckland  • Alun Cairns  • James Cleverly  • Geoffrey Cox  • Oliver Dowden  • Michael Gove  • Matt Hancock  • Alister Jack  • Sajid Javid  • Robert Jenrick  • Jo Johnson  • Kwasi Kwarteng  • Andrea Leadsom  • Brandon Lewis  • Esther McVey  • Nicky Morgan  • Priti Patel  • Dominic Raab  • Jacob Rees-Mogg  • Amber Rudd  • Grant Shapps  • Alok Sharma  • Julian Smith  • Mark Spencer  • Rishi Sunak  • Elizabeth Truss  • Theresa Villiers  • Ben Wallace  • Gavin Williamson  • Thérèse Coffey

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personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Joseph Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and politician (Conservative Party), member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd December 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England