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Section sizes

Section size for Boris Johnson (67 sections)
Section name	Byte count		Prose size (words)
Section name	Header	Total	Header	Total
(Top)	10,848	10,848	679	679
Early life and education	29	15,705	0	867
Childhood	7,688	7,688	443	443
Eton and Oxford: 1977–1987	7,988	7,988	424	424
Early career	17	35,415	0	2,187
The Times and The Daily Telegraph: 1987–1994	8,764	8,764	583	583
Political columnist: 1994–1999	6,083	6,083	455	455
The Spectator and MP for Henley: 1999–2008	6,530	20,551	299	1,149
Becoming an MP	10,155	10,155	614	614
Second term	3,866	3,866	236	236
Mayor of London (2008–2016)	71	37,273	0	1,790
Mayoral election: 2007–2008	2,967	2,967	162	162
First term: 2008–2012	6,430	22,942	314	1,174
Policies	8,836	8,836	417	417
Relations with the police, finance, and the media	6,316	6,316	335	335
Re-election campaign	1,360	1,360	108	108
Second term: 2012–2016	11,293	11,293	454	454
Return to Parliament	2,869	65,754	72	1,854
Brexit campaign: 2015–2016	11,391	11,391	300	300
Foreign Secretary: 2016–2018	40,768	40,768	1,060	1,060
Return to the backbenches: 2018–2019	2,124	10,726	80	422
Journalism	4,862	4,862	208	208
2019 Conservative Party leadership election	3,740	3,740	134	134
Premiership (2019–2022)	678	151,532	0	5,083
First term (July–December 2019)	1,330	21,826	45	669
Brexit policy	12,585	12,585	370	370
First Cabinet	3,298	3,298	72	72
Loss of working majority	3,491	3,491	138	138
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Second Cabinet	3,683	3,683	152	152
COVID-19 pandemic	34,834	34,834	879	879
Immigration	4,331	4,331	118	118
Legislative agenda	1,823	1,823	105	105
2021 Downing Street refurbishment controversy	6,671	6,671	262	262
Owen Paterson controversy	4,534	4,534	154	154
Partygate scandal	19,019	19,019	724	724
Starmer slur controversy	1,712	1,712	103	103
Vote of confidence	3,288	3,288	114	114
June 2022 by-elections	3,593	3,593	142	142
Pincher scandal	4,817	4,817	190	190
Mass resignations	3,633	3,633	122	122
Announcement of resignation	4,454	4,454	134	134
Environmental policies	5,909	5,909	188	188
Foreign policy	3,729	26,674	111	1,027
Hong Kong and China	4,630	4,630	226	226
Afghanistan	3,281	3,281	99	99
UK–EU trade negotiation	4,125	4,125	215	215
Russia and Ukraine	10,909	10,909	376	376
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get rid of mp by his name and hon friba — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vauxhallinsig (talk • contribs)

No, because he is still an MP. See the two discussions of this above. Grachester (talk)

Boris Files draft

There's probably enough in the current revelations to merit a separate article, and another editor has started Draft:Boris Files. Wikishovel (talk) 17:30, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-data-leaked-sparking-35874206

82.153.76.222 (talk) 23:15, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are other sources:

2A00:23C7:549:5F01:7991:E56F:1570:31E5 (talk) 07:06, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It has linked him with the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

82.153.76.222 (talk) 14:25, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Political Donors still missing

I wonder, that there is no mention of the discussions around political donors and about the Boris Files at Distributed Denial of Secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/08/what-are-the-boris-johnson-files-former-prime-minister

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/10/the-1m-man-why-did-boris-johnson-take-his-donor-to-ukraine

https://ddosecrets.com/article/boris-files Martin Mair (talk) 13:11, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am not a native English speaker, so maybe someone other will do this job. Martin Mair (talk) 13:12, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Too Long Banner

I added {{|Too long}} to this page today as it's getting extremely lengthy; it's just under 15k words, which is usually the hard cutoff point for pages that definitely need to be shortened. While Boris has undeniably had a long career, is there anything that could be spun off into its own page or strikes others as too much detail? For example, there's a page for his time as mayor, but then this page goes into long detail about his time there as well.

I'll have a deeper look later, but there definitely strikes me as a few places that need a format or trim. e.g. The "First Cabinet" section:

Johnson appointed his Cabinet on 24 July 2019,[397] dismissing 11 senior ministers and accepting the resignation of six others.[398][399] The mass dismissal was the most extensive postwar Cabinet reorganisation without a change in the ruling party.[400][401]

Johnson made Dominic Raab the First Secretary of State and foreign secretary.

Sajid Javid became Chancellor of the Exchequer

Priti Patel became Home Secretary.
Are those one-sentence paragraphs adding much? etc. RandomEditsForWhenIRemember (talk) 19:11, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]