It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
BORIS JOHNSONThe dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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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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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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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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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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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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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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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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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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You are part of our Great British family.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
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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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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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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.
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