Boris Johnson
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
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| 2024 | During the 2024 general election campaign, Johnson campaigned for the Conservative Party, which ultimately lost the election in a landslide to Labour. |
| 2024 | Johnson endorsed Donald Trump's presidential campaign, while also urging Trump to maintain U.S. support for Ukraine. He characterized Trump's legal conviction as a 'corrupt mob-style hit job' and suggested the conviction might improve Trump's electoral prospects. |
| October 2024 | Johnson's memoirs, titled 'Unleashed', were released. |
| July 2024 | Two years after stepping down as Prime Minister, Johnson proposed a 'Ukrainian Peace Plan' to US presidential candidate Donald Trump, suggesting US support for Ukraine to retake lost territories and fast-track NATO and EU accession. |
| May 2 2024 | Johnson was turned away from his polling station after failing to bring valid photographic identification for the Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner election, though he later returned to vote. |
| March 2024 | Reports emerged that Johnson is expected to campaign for the Conservatives in the upcoming General Election. |
| February 2024 | Johnson had a private meeting with Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela. |
| 2023 | Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds bought Brightwell Manor, a £3.8 million moated mansion in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire. |
| 2023 | Boris Johnson returned to road running. |
| 2023 | During the Israel–Hamas war, Johnson strongly opposed calls to stop UK arms sales to Israel, describing such suggestions as 'insane' and arguing that stopping arms sales would lead to 'the military defeat of Israel and the victory of Hamas'. |
| November 5 2023 | Boris Johnson visited Israel to express solidarity following Hamas' attack and stated that there could be no moral equivalence between Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces. |
| October 2023 | Johnson announced his new role as a commentator and programme maker for the television channel GB News in anticipation of the next general election and the US presidential election. |
| September 2023 | National Audit Office criticized the government's justification for paying £265,000 for Boris Johnson's legal fees relating to the Partygate inquiry. |
| July 2023 | Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds welcomed their third child, a son named Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson. |
| July 10 2023 | The House of Commons approved the second report without a vote, with Sunak not attending the debate. |
| July 6 2023 | Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the Liaison Committee that he had not fully read the second report about the investigation. |
| June 30 2023 | Zac Goldsmith resigned from his ministerial position, citing the government's 'apathy' towards environmental issues, shortly after the Committee's report was published. |
| June 29 2023 | The Committee released a report accusing ten Conservatives of interfering with the investigation, including former ministers Nadine Dorries, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Priti Patel, among others. |
| June 19 2023 | Commons Privileges Committee chair Harriet Harman confirmed the Committee was preparing a second report on MPs who allegedly sought to intimidate the investigation into Boris Johnson. |
| June 19 2023 | The House of Commons debated the Privileges Committee report, with a vote of 354 to 7 supporting the committee's findings against Boris Johnson. 118 Conservative MPs, including 15 ministers, voted for the report, while 225 abstained. |
| June 18 2023 | Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, announced he would abstain from the vote on the Privileges Committee report about Boris Johnson. |
| June 16 2023 | Boris Johnson was unveiled as a new columnist for the Daily Mail, with reports indicating he would receive a 'very-high six-figure sum' for the position. |
| June 15 2023 | The Commons Privileges Committee published a report concluding that Johnson lied to and misled the House of Commons over Partygate and recommended a 90-day suspension had he still been an MP. |
| June 12 2023 | The Commons Privileges Committee announced they would meet to conclude their work and publish their report earlier in response to Johnson's statements. |
| June 12 2023 | Johnson submitted his response to the Committee's report at 23:57, just before the deadline. |
| June 9 2023 | Johnson's 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were published, leading to a public feud with Rishi Sunak and the resignation announcement of his supporter Nadine Dorries from her MP position, after which Johnson resigned as an MP. |
| May 2023 | The Cabinet Office referred Boris Johnson to the police regarding potential breaches of COVID regulations that occurred between June 2020 and May 2021. |
| March 2023 | An interim report from the Commons Select Committee of Privileges suggested there was evidence Johnson should have been aware of breaches of COVID-19 regulations, stating that he had 'personal knowledge' of lockdown gatherings in No 10. |
| March 22 2023 | The Commons Privileges Committee released 110 pages of evidence with redactions, including statements from Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and former Downing Street Director of Communications Lee Cain regarding the COVID-19 gatherings. |
| March 22 2023 | Boris Johnson appeared before the Commons Privileges Committee for a three-hour televised hearing, during which he defended his actions regarding COVID-19 gatherings at Downing Street and maintained that he did not lie to Parliament. |
| March 21 2023 | Boris Johnson submitted his final response document to the Commons Privileges Committee, which was subsequently published the same day. In the document, Johnson acknowledged his parliamentary statements were misleading but argued this was unintentional, and challenged the committee's investigative scope. |
| January 2023 | The Kunts released 'Rishi Sunak is a Rat-Faced Cunt', a song targeting the new Prime Minister with updated lyrics. |
| January 19 2023 | He was awarded honorary citizenship of Kyiv. |
| January 11 2023 | The committee met to examine documents including WhatsApp messages, emails, Johnson's official diary, briefing papers, and entry logs from 10 Downing Street. |
| 2022 | Eddie Lister, the Downing Street Chief of Staff at the time, confirmed in a statement to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry that Johnson made the controversial statement and described it as 'an unfortunate turn of phrase'. |
| 2022 | Planned introduction of a new health and social care levy at 1.25%, with National Insurance rates set to revert to previous levels. |
| 2022 | It was reported that Johnson became convinced of the scientific consensus on climate change following a briefing by the chief scientist of the Met Office in January 2020, leading him to prioritize climate issues for his government. |
| 2022 | Boris Johnson's government introduced an asylum deal whereby individuals entering the UK illegally would be sent to Rwanda. |
| 2022 | Boris Johnson won the vote of confidence with 211 votes in favour and 148 against. The outcome indicated a larger number of rebel MPs than anticipated, and was referred to by Keir Starmer as the 'beginning of the end' for Johnson's premiership. |
| 2022 | Long-term net migration to the UK reached a record high of 764,000. |
| November 17 2022 | Kunt launched a third attempt at the Christmas No. 1 single with the track 'Fuck the Tories', which reached No. 7 in the charts. |
| October 20 2022 | Following Liz Truss's resignation as Conservative Party leader, Boris Johnson received the necessary nominations to stand in the leadership election but announced he would not participate. |
| September 7 2022 | Liz Truss officially became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Boris Johnson. |
| September 6 2022 | Boris Johnson officially resigned as Prime Minister, and Liz Truss succeeded him after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest. |
| September 6 2022 | Boris Johnson delivered his farewell speech outside 10 Downing Street, during which he referenced the Roman statesman Cincinnatus. |
| September 5 2022 | On the day Johnson was replaced by Liz Truss as Conservative Party leader, the Kunts released a limited edition 300-copy 7-inch vinyl single featuring three anti-Boris Johnson songs, with proceeds donated to The Trussell Trust and Mind. |
| September 5 2022 | It was announced that Liz Truss won the Conservative leadership election. |
| August 2022 | University of Oxford report finds Brexit has exacerbated labour shortages in the UK, particularly in hospitality and support sectors. |
| August 2022 | Johnson blamed Vladimir Putin for the emerging global energy crisis. |
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