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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
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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 want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
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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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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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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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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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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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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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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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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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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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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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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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