France praises nationality bid by Boris Johnson’s father Stanley

Stanley Johnson, father of Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Stanley Johnson, father of Prime Minister Boris Johnson/PA)

France’s government has cast a favourable light on a reported bid by the father of Britain’s Prime Minister to take up French nationality, saying it shows how attached Britons are to the European Union that they are no longer part of.

Reports that Stanley Johnson, the father of Boris Johnson, is seeking to keep a foot in Europe by taking up French citizenship made headlines just as his son led Britain’s split on Thursday from the EU.