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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Hon FRIBA (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer, and former journalist serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Ideologically, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative.
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Boris Johnson issues warning to anyone thinking about tearing down Cecil Rhodes statue
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mirror.co.ukAnyone tearing down more statues of racists or slave traders should face the "full force of the law", Boris Johnson has said.
The Prime Minister's spokesman said "people should not be desecrating public monuments" after Black Lives Matter activists dumped a bronze of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol harbour.
But his spokesman said it was up to police whether to intervene - despite Home Secretary Priti Patel's fury after police did not stop the action in Bristol.
It comes as a fresh protest is planned tonight in front of a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes in Oxford. His changes to land ownership in South Africa in the late 1800s are accused of paving the way for the brutal Apartheid regime decades later.
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