Being the first Prime Minister to be born outside of the United Kingdom since Andrew Bonar Law’s premiership over a hundred years ago, Boris Johnson was actually born in Manhattan in New York City to British parents. He held dual citizenship for both the United States and the United Kingdom until 2016, when he renounced his United States citizenship. It is likely that he did this due to the fact that it freed him of major tax payments he would have owed as a citizen of the United States.
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