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UK Prime Minister, Johnson Sets Wedding Date
For the first time in 200 years, a sitting prime minister of Britain is to wed while in office, it emerged on Monday. The wedding of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds has been set for July 30, 2022 The Sun reported.
It would be the prime minister’s third marriage and it would be the first for Ms. Symonds who is a well known operative of the British Conservative Party.
The two who have been living together, however, have a child together.
The last time a prime minister married while in office was in 1822 when Sir Robert Jenkinson, the 2nd Earl of Liverpool who was in office for 15 years from 1812 to 1827.
When he became prime minister in 2019 at age 56 and moved in with Ms. Symonds they became the first unmarried couple to live at the flat at 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s official residence.
However, before them, Sir Edward Heath had occupied the same residence as an unmarried bachelor.
Besides the news of the wedding of Johnson and his fiancee, the UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said that the BBC must act first to restore trust in the corporation.
This was after a damning report into how it secured a 1995 interview with Princess Diana exposed failures at the heart of the publicly funded broadcaster.
Dowden said the government would not “stand idly by” after the report which concluded that journalist Martin Bashir had used deceit to gain Diana’s acquiescence.
According to Dowden, the then BBC bosses later covered up his wrongdoing.
“We will not make knee-jerk reforms, but will use the mid-term charter (in 2022) to determine whether the governance and regulatory arrangements should be strengthened,” Dowden wrote in the Times on Monday.
He said “the BBC can occasionally succumb to a ‘we know best’ attitude that is detached both from the criticism and the values of all parts of the nation it serves”.
The inquiry into the 1995 interview by former senior judge John Dyson provoked widespread criticism of the broadcaster, including an unprecedented rebuke from Diana’s eldest son, Prince William.
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