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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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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.
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When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.
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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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It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
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We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard
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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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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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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The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
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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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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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It hasn't taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they're back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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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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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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My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
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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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I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round.
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