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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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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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He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
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