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
[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I'm afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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.
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.
I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.
London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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.
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.
We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
I've always known my life would be turned into a farce. I'm just glad it's been entrusted to two such distinguished men of letters.
Sometimes, in our thinking about higher education, we're too narrowly confined to a utilitarian calculus about what it's doing to the bottom line of UK plc. I wanted to make the point that higher education adds immeasurably to the value of the UK economy without necessarily obliging everybody to pursue courses that have some immediate vocational application. I wanted to stick up for medieval history, among other things, which was deprecated by Charles Clarke.
The Tory Party - the funkiest, most jiving Party on Earth!
Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.