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.
BORIS JOHNSONI have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope.
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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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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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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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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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David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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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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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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