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.
BORIS JOHNSONLondon 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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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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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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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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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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All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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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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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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