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Boris Johnson faces the first government minicrisis after the resignation of his own brother, Jo Johnson, as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
"In recent weeks I have been divided between family loyalty and national interests," says Jo Johnson, 47, at the time of also announcing his resignation as a conservative deputy.
"It has been a tension that goes beyond reasonable," he says, "that is why I am going to let someone else take my place in the Government and in Parliament."
Jo Johnson tanned as a journalist like his brother and made the leap to the world of finance and finally to politics nine years ago. David Cameron signed him for his Government in 2015 and Theresa May kept him as Secretary of State for Universities, until his resignation in the final phase of the Brexit negotiation.
Jo Johnson, who voted in his day for permanence, was then in favor of holding a second referendum.
At the end of July, however, he agreed to return when Boris Johnson settled in Downing Street, despite serious discrepancies with his brother and under the blessing of the family patriarch, Stanley, also a supporter of the permanence.
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