I’m no communist. I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
BORIS JOHNSONThe only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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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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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
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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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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 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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be 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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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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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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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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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 want to win and I want to be in office.
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