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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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