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Stanley Johnson
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's father became French.
The Justice Department said on Thursday that he was granted citizenship based on his application.
"This has no effect on his descendants," the ministry said.
The French consul in London wanted to present him with the certificate of his citizenship in person.
The 81-year-old was born in Great Britain to a French mother.
He justified his request with the fact that he wanted to keep a connection to the EU despite Brexit.
"I will always be European," he had said in an interview.
He was always French because of his mother.
"I'm only asking for what I already have," he said.
Stanley Johnson was an MEP from 1979 to 1984.
Under French law, the right to citizenship for children of French parents goes out when the family more than 50 years of living abroad.
However, they can reapply, as Johnson's father did, by declaring their connections to France.
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