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.
BORIS JOHNSONThe Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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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The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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You are part of our Great British family.
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It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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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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I think it’s absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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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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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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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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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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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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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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Plus I think she can articulate what’s needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.
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Since 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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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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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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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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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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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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