ロンドン市長、ＥＵ離脱を支持 「他の余地なし」

ロンドン市長、ＥＵ離脱を支持　「他の余地なし」
ロンドン＝渡辺志帆
2016年2月22日19時39分

ロンドンのボリス・ジョンソン市長（５１）が、英国が６月に行う欧州連合（ＥＵ）からの離脱か残留かを問う国民投票で、「離脱」派を支持する考えを表明した。与党・保守党の盟友で、人気が高いジョンソン氏のＥＵ離脱支持は、残留を訴えるキャメロン首相に痛手となりそうだ。

ジョンソン氏は２１日、報道陣に「根本的なＥＵ改革ができるとは誰も本気でいえない」と述べ、「ずいぶん頭を悩ませたが、他の余地はない」と決意を語った。

ジョンソン氏はキャメロン氏と同じ名門私立校からオックスフォード大学へ進んだいわゆる「エリート」だが、あえて整えない髪形や自転車で市内を移動する親しみやすさから国民に根強い人気がある。今期で市長を退き、兼務してきた下院議員に専念する予定のジョンソン氏の離脱支持は、キャメロン氏の後継争いで党内のライバルを出し抜く政治的な動きともみられている。（ロンドン＝渡辺志帆）
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASJ2Q5S2MJ2QUHBI01W.html

Johnson was born on 19 June 1964^[3] at the Clinic, a hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.^[4] His birth was registered with both the U.S. authorities and the city's British Consulate, and he was granted both American and British citizenship.^[5] His parents were both English. His father, Stanley Johnson, had moved to the United States to study creative writing at the University of Iowa, before transferring to study economics at New York's Columbia University.^[6] Boris's mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl (née Fawcett),^[7] had been from a family of left-wing and liberal intellectuals and had married the politically conservative Stanley in 1963, before accompanying him to the U.S.^[8]
Stanley's father, Johnny Johnson, had been born Osman Kemal in Bournemouth to a half-English and half-Swiss mother, Winifred.^[9][10] Johnny's father, Ali Kemal Bey, was a Turkish journalist who had been killed for his anti-Nationalist sympathies during the Turkish War of Independence.^[11][12] After Winifred died shortly after childbirth, Osman was orphaned, and moved in with his English maternal grandmother, where he was renamed Wilfred "Johnny" Johnson and rejected his Turkish heritage.^[13] Stanley's mother, Irène Johnson (née Williams) was half-English and half-French, having been the illegitimate granddaughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and through him a descendant of King George II of Great Britain.^[14] Via this connection, Johnson may be related to most of the royal families of Europe, and is an eighth cousin of British Prime Minister David Cameron.^[15][16]

Johnson's mother, Charlotte, was the daughter of barrister James Fawcett, and the granddaughter of palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe (who was of Russian Jewish extraction)^[17] and translator Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter. In reference to his cosmopolitan ancestry, Johnson has described himself as a "one-man melting pot"—with a combination of Muslims, Jews, and Christians as great-grandparents.^[18] The journalist Toby Young has described Johnson's background as being "lower-upper-middle class".^[19]


、、、（爆ｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ