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The former mayor of New York may become the head of London

Boris Johnson and Michael Bloomberg, *London, 2008 *The main news of the Easter weekend in London is Michael Bloomberg, one of the richest people of the planet, the owner of Bloomberg L. P., who was three times mayor of New York, is now thinking about becoming the mayor of London. This was announced by the British newspaper Sunday Times with reference to an unnamed source, which, as many people believe, may be hidden by a friend of Bloomberg, ... the current mayor of London Boris Johnson, whose deadline for the mayor of the British capital expires in 2016. Johnson has already announced his intention to run for parliament from one of the London regions in the elections of May 7 this year, and then combine work in both positions over the next one and a half years. It is unusual, it is not prohibited by law. Johnson is one of the potential candidates for leadership in the Tory Party after the current leader and Prime Minister David Cameron announced his intention to leave this post five years later. Having reported this, Cameron called three people who, in his opinion, can lead the party after his departure. Among the named was Boris Johnson.

“Second House” 73-year-old Bloomberg, who served the mayor of New York for three terms, calls Britain his “second home”. There are two of his daughters and his ex -wife, a native of Yorkshira, with whom he retained warm relations live here. Bloomberg owns a London owl value of 20 million pounds on Knightsbridge and last year was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II to honorary knights - for "huge entrepreneurial and charitable activities."

However, even this is not enough for the American can be elected to the mayors of London, because, according to the law, Bloomberg needs to have either British citizenship or the citizenship of any country - a member of the European Union. However, such a person as Bloomberg, who invested millions of pounds in the British economy, has the opportunity to quickly solve this problem.

A couple of years ago, Boris Johnson, talking with Bloomberg, at that time by the mayor of New York, joked: "We need to change our jobs." Johnson was born in New York, where his father worked then, and has American citizenship at the place of birth. Now, in the wake of rumors, as if Bloomberg could become the next candidate of the British conservatives for the post of London, of course, all newspapers remembered this joke.

The Sunday Times quoted the words of one of the most influential advisers to the British Prime Minister Steve Hilton: “For London it would be a huge success if it was possible to convince Bloomberg's T -shit to run for mayors. His pragmatic approach to solving problems is exactly what London needs. ”

However, the former deputy Bloomberg, as mayor of the mayor of the founding of the York, Howard Wolfson, told The New York Post to the American newspaper that he does not consider such a turn of events possible. “You can quote me as a denying such an opportunity ... He (Bloomberg) loves New York too much to leave him, and he knows how difficult it will be to anyone who comes (to the place of the London mayor) after Boris,” Wolfson said.

One city Bloomberg itself and its official representatives have not yet commented on a rumor, which, according to the British media, has been launched no coincidence. But The Guardian, commenting on it, ironically wrote that it only proves that London and New York is essentially one city that shares only the runway of the airport: “They (cities) are united by money, show business, restaurants and the price of real estate. There is no reason, why not unite them with mayors. ”

Michael Bloomberg, occupying 13th place in the list of the richest people of the planet according to Forbes, began his career in one of the largest investment banks - Salomon Brothers. The company fired it in 1981, paying him a bonus of $ 10 million. Bloomberg invested this money in the creation of a new information agency, a supplier of information for transactions in the financial and stock markets to which he gave his name. Now the holding is a leader in the industry, and all investment bankers in the world use its terminals.

In 2001, Bloomberg, whose condition was estimated at $ 36.5 billion, left the ranks of the US Democratic Party and joined the Republicans, from whom he elected to the mayor of the New York-these elections took place a week after the September 11 attacks. Bloomberg spent $ 73 million of his own money on his campaign. He served at the mayor’s post for three terms - 12 years - managing the city as a large corporation. In particular, playing for a healthy lifestyle, the mayor introduced in New York prohibitions on smoking in all public premises and for the sale of carbonated drinks in large bottles. He also constantly advocated a strict restriction on weapons in the United States, which made himself many enemies in the “weapons lobby”.