Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
BORIS JOHNSONSome 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 don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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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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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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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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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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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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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.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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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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He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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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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