Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
BORIS JOHNSONHe wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
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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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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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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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London 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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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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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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