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Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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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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Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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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 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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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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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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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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 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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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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 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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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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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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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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