Boris Johnson Quotes

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, journalist, and popular historian. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from July 2019 until September 2022. Johnson was Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip from May 2015 until his resignation in June 2023. Earlier in his career, Johnson was the MP for Henley from 2001 until 2008, and Mayor of London, completing two terms in office between 2008 and 2016. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson considers himself a "One-Nation Tory" and has been described as a libertarian due to his association with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies. He is partly of Turkish descent.

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Alternative Names: Boris • Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson • BoJo • Bo Jo

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And I want to congratulate you Brian [Paddick] on your great common sense and decency with which you put your case and I do hope that it is not the end of our discussions about the police.

Oh shit, we've got no plan. We haven’t thought about it. I didn’t think it would happen. Holy crap, what will we do?

I can tell you; I DO brush it! I have a comb in my office!

[The Brexit] dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt

[I am] grateful to the committee for recognising that there was no intention to mislead the House and that I had been completely transparent

I do think they [the EU] understand there's an opportunity to do a deal. I think it's going to be touch and go.

Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.

[The Irish border backstop is] inconsistent with the sovereignty of the UK

I will work flat out from now on to earn your trust and to dispel some of the myths that have been created about me.

Now can I ask you a question, "Why is it that we're lucky to have so many Chinese students?" Is it because of the weather? Is it because we have so many French restaurants? Is it because we have so many communist bicycles? [At Beijing's 798 art district, 13 October 2013]

Andrew Neil: You talk about article 5B in .
Boris Johnson: Article 24, get it right Andrew, it's article 24, paragraph 5B.
Andrew Neil: And how would you handle paragraph 5C?
Boris Johnson: I would confide entirely in paragraph 5B.
Andrew Neil: But how would you get round what's in 5C?
Boris Johnson: I would confide entirely in paragraph 5B which is enough for out purposes.
Andrew Neil: Do you know what is in 5C?
Boris Johnson: No.

Had it been us staging the Games, I don't think we would necessarily have done the switcheroo with the girl with the braces

I didn't see it, but it sounds barbaric. It's become like cock-fighting: poor dumb brutes being set upon each other by conniving television producers.

And as for Ken, Mayor Livingstone, I think you have been a very considerable public servant and a distinguished leader of this city.

I forgot that to rely on a train, in Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.

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