I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
BORIS JOHNSONCan I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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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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I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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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 meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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