Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnsonis a British politician, popular historian, author, and journalist. He has been Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since July 2016 and has served as the Member of Parliamentfor Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. He had previously served as MP for Henley from 2001 until 2008 and as Mayor of London from 2008 until 2016. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson identifies as a One-Nation Conservative and has been associated with both...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 June 1964
CityNew York City, NY
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.
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for self-doubt. It is a moment of hope.
I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.