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Boris Johnson
He is the Editor
of the Spectator and 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 has 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 has continued to be Britain's most successful
political weekly, with a circulation of 60,000 and an annual profit of
£1m.
Boris fought Clwyd South in the 1997 General Election and is well-known
as a writer and broadcaster.
The blond-haired
editor and MP, unlike some of his "young fogey" counterparts is suave,
good-humoured and immensely witty. Being an after dinner speaker Boris
also speaks on media and politics.
In addition to his Spectator editorship, 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.
He is married with
four children. His sister Rachel is a published author and columnist on
The Daily Telegraph, while his father Stanley is a former MEP. |
