The prime minister’s father, Stanley Johnson, has defended travelling to his villa in Greece amid growing condemnation by saying that he was making the property ‘Covid-proof’. Interviewed by Greek media outside his mountain villa in Pelion overlooking the Aegean sea on Saturday, Johnson senior said: ‘I don’t know what the reaction of the British public is. I’ve been, you know, not particularly … I came here to have a quiet time, to organise the house, and so I’m not 100% up to speed’
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Stanley Patrick Johnson is a British author and former Conservative Party politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for Wight and Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984. A former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission, he has written books on environmental and population issues.
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