UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson just joined TikTok TikTok: 10DowningStreetThe Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has joined TikTok with a Number 10 Downing Street account. The Tory leader confirmed his arrival on the lip-sync video platform on May 10, following a difficult set of results for his party in the local elections which saw them lose almost 500 seats. Johnson has stated that No.10 will be using the popular social media website to share \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d footage of government life, where he has posted two clips so far. In his first-ever upload, he said: \u201cYou won\u2019t necessarily catch me dancing on this site,\u201d stating his mission is to upload messages about how he can \u201cunite\u201d the country. Boris Johnson joins TikTok The 57-year-old\u2019s account is called 10DowningStreet, as you might expect, making it an official government channel. There was a special guest with him on the second video, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, which featured Carol Kay\u2019s AIN\u2019T GONNA STOP music in the background. This marks yet another move into popular social media platforms for the Conservative Party, which will be hoping some of the 500,000 followers it has on Twitter will make the leap over to TikTok to watch its short-form videos. Johnson\u2019s first two videos have recorded nearly three million views at the time of writing. In the comments, one user said: \u201cTheresa would have danced. 0.001\/10 Boris,\u201d referencing Theresa May\u2019s viral dance moves of 2018 Tory conference. Another posted: \u201cBoris, please could you help me with my gas and electricity bill,\u201d referencing the soaring energy costs in the UK. As the next General Election in Britain is expected to take place in 2024, that gives Boris two years to build up the account\u2019s following. Who knows, maybe closer to the time when Brits go to the polls he might even break out a WAP \u2013 or a hairstyle tutorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson just joined TikTok TikTok: 10DowningStreetThe Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has joined TikTok with a Number 10 Downing Street account. The Tory leader confirmed his arrival on the lip-sync video platform on May 10, following a difficult set of results for his party in the local elections […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}