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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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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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 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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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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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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He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
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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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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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