London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
BORIS JOHNSONDo 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
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All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
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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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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
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We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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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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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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