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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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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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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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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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If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men or indeed three men and a dog.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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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The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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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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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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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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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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