The prime minister is also being accused of "staggering hypocrisy" after he reportedly used a private jet to fly home from the COP26 climate change conference to attend a London dinner with another of his peer appointees. Political reporter GregHeffer. Boris Johnson enjoyed a free holiday thanks to the multi-millionaire failed London mayoral candidate he made a peer.
In an update to his register of interests, it has been confirmed that the prime minister stayed at a holiday home of Lord Goldsmith's family in southern Spain last month "free of charge". Lord Goldsmith is a government minister who was previously Conservative MP for Richmond Park before he lost his seat at the general election.
Despite his rejection by voters in the south west London constituency, Mr Johnson subsequently made Lord Goldsmith a Tory peer in the House of Lords so he could keep his ministerial role. The prime minister was last month reported to have flown to Marbella with his wife, Carrie Johnson, and their son, Wilfred, for a holiday after delivering his keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference.
Mrs Johnson is said to be a close personal friend of Lord Goldsmith, who she worked for in her first job in politics. Boris Johnson insists sleaze allegations will not affect ballot box at by-elections. Lord Goldsmith was defeated in a contest to become London mayor amid accusations he had run an Islamophobic campaign against Labour's Sadiq Khan. The government confirmed on Thursday that Goldsmith would be reappointed to his old post as a minister in the department for the environment, food and rural affairs and the department for international development.
A government spokesperson confirmed Goldsmith would continue to attend cabinet meetings. Goldsmith, the son of the billionaire businessman James Goldsmith, is a long-time ally of Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds.
Zac Goldsmith is not fit to hold any government position. It is the second time in a week that Johnson has chosen to make a colleague a life peer in order to keep them in his cabinet.
According to Astrologers, Zac Goldsmith's zodiac sign is Aquarius. His first marriage — to fellow environmental activist Sheherazade Goldsmith — resulted in daughters named Thyra and Uma and a son named James. He later wed Alice Miranda Rothschild of the Rothschild banking dynasty , with whom he had a fourth child, Dolly.
He was the Member of Parliament MP for Richmond Park from to , previously holding the seat between and A member of the Conservative Party, he was its candidate at the London mayoral election, which he lost to Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party. Ideologically characterised as having liberal and libertarian views, Goldsmith is known for his environmentalist and localist beliefs.
While working with ISEC, Goldsmith travelled to India, spending a short time on an ashram in Rajasthan and later lived in Ladakh for six months, studying traditional cultures and helping run a tourist education programme. After attending several different independent schools, he traveled abroad and eventually secured employment with the International Society for Ecology and Culture headquartered in California, U.
Goldsmith was the second richest member of the House of Commons. A backgammon and poker player, he also pursues other sporting interests including cricket.
Goldsmith funded the Organic Targets Bill Campaign to promote organic farming in He is a longstanding donor to the Soil Association. In , he was a participant at the Soil Association Annual Conference, during which he competed in an organic fashion show on 25 January and afterwards debating on a Question Time panel on 27 January.
Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United Kingdom. Zac Goldsmith celebrates birthday on January 20 of every year. Goldsmith was married for ten years to Sheherazade Ventura-Bentley with whom he has three children: two daughters, Uma Romaine and Thyra, and a son, James.
The couple married on 5 June
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