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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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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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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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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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You are part of our Great British family.
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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
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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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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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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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I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
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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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Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were.
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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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