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Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and his wife, Marina Wheeler, have announced that they have separated and that they are divorcing.
In a joint statement issued by a family friend, the couple said their separation took place "several months ago".
The announcement came after The Sun revealed on the front page that the Conservative MP and his wife, both 54, were no longer living together.
In their statement, Mr. Johnson and Ms. Wheeler stated: "Several months ago, after 25 years of marriage, we decided that it was in our best interest to separate.
"We subsequently agreed to divorce and this process is under way.
"As friends, we will continue to support our four children in the years to come, we will not comment further."
Mr. Johnson was a childhood friend of Mrs. Wheeler while they were both students at the European School in Brussels.
He met his first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, while they were students at Oxford, and they got married in 1987, but the marriage was canceled in 1993 and he married Mrs. Wheeler later in the same year. The couple has two sons and two daughters.
Mr. Johnson has been repeatedly subjected to the supervision of his personal life. The British Court of Appeal ruled in 2013 that the public had the right to know that he had spawned a girl during an adulterous affair with the mayor of London in 2009.
In 2004, he was fired from the front in front of the Conservatives following a deal with journalist Petronella Wyatt.
It is unclear whether the couple's decision to separate was prior to the resignation of Mr. Johnson as Foreign Secretary. The couple were photographed together leaving their official residence, Carlton House Terrace, shortly after leaving the office.
The news of the divorce comes as Johnson is at the center of intense speculation about a possible challenge to British Prime Minister Theresa May.
He left May's cabinet in July to protest his plans for future relations with the EU, and this week he used his Daily Telegraph column to condemn his Brexit project as a disaster.
He should address other eurosceptics on the sidelines of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, in an intervention that threatens to mask May's efforts to rally activists to his plan.
In Westminster, there was much speculation as to whether Mr. Johnson could have announced his imminent divorce in order to "clear the bridges" before a leadership offer.
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