Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
BORIS JOHNSONSince January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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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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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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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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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth-and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans.
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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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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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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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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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