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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.

Boris Johnson

It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Easy Hard Promise Work
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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Chance Myself Opportunity
This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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Scorn Spit Subjects
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Done Happens Writing
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Growth Looks Trying
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
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Enemy Myself Rival
We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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Better Celebration Contribution Country
Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It’s time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it’s happening.
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Dangerous Earth Legal Perfection
Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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Anything Long Remember Say
The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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Leader Party World
I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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Allow Behave Grace Reality Way
The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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Leadership Tall World
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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Country Europe Jobs
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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Difference Speech Thinking Yourself
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Conservatism Meat
Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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Age Character Darkness Humanity
I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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Food Healthy Myself Pressure
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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Mad Needs Reality
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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Compassion Excitement Sight
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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Art Evil Humanity
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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Mars Olive Pms Trees
People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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Achievement Country People
The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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Force Imbalance Looks People System
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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Beginning Fear Positive Talk
My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Better Ideas Trying World
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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Country Hero War
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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Conservatism Journey Time Transportation

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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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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