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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Hon FRIBA  (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer, and former journalist serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Ideologically, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative.
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'Some evidence' UK coronavirus strain more deadly: Johnson

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Boris Johnson said on Friday."It also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant... may be associated with a higher degree of mortality," he said at a Downing Street news conference.Chief government scientist Patrick Vallance said the new variant could be around 30 percent more deadly, although he stressed that only sparse data was available.He said that for a 60-year-old man, around 10 in 1,000 would be expected to die after catching the original strain.But that rises to "13 or 14" for the new strain."You will see that across the different age groups as well, a similar sort of relative increase in the risk," he added.Britain is in the grip of its third and worst wave of the virus, recording record daily death tolls that.

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