Jo Johnson Quotes
I grew up in Brussels.
Johnson, Jo. Interview. Financial Times, 2018.
Belgium is comprised of an amalgam of two separate nations and cultures, Walonia and Flanders. They spoke a different language and had very different economies and world views. Destree was distressed that few people saw themselves as Belgians—They were either Flemish or Waloons. There was at the time no concept of a nation even though there was a king and the rest of the world recognized one country.
Joseph Edmund Johnson, Baron Johnson of Marylebone is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation from July to September 2019, as well as previously from 2015 to 2018. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington from 2010 to 2019. His older brother, Boris Johnson, has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2019.