I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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 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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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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It 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.
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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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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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The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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He wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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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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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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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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