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?
BORIS JOHNSONSome people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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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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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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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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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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When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
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It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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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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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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 have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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