It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
BORIS JOHNSONIt hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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I’m no communist.I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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