Boris Johnson has won the UK's Conservative Party leadership
contest and will take over from outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May when she
steps down on Wednesday. Johnson was born 1964 in New York City to wealthy
upper-middle class British parents, educated at the European School, Brussels
I, Ashdown House, and Eton College. He read Classics at Balliol College,
Oxford, where he was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1986.
Johnson, a former Mayor of London and British Foreign
Secretary, took 92,153 votes, while rival Jeremy Hunt scored 46,656 votes in a
ballot of party members. Turnout was 87.4%
"Today the campaign is over and the work begins,"
Johnson said in a speech immediately after the results were announced Tuesday.
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