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
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
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.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
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.
I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
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.
To rely on a train in Blair's Britain is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.
It's very, very good news for Cameron. He's going to storm through, I've absolutely no doubt he's going to be Prime Minister.
It's economically illiterate. A degree in classics or philosophy can be as valuable as anything else.
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.