Boris Johnson Quotes

[The attack was] a sign [from President Putin that] no-one could escape the long arm of Russian revenge ... [The attack] was a sign that President Putin or the Russian state wanted to give to potential defectors in their own agencies: 'This is what happens to you if you decide to support a country with a different set of values. You can expect to be assassinated'.

I do not for one minute believe that this election shows that London has been transformed overnight into a Conservative city but I do hope it does show that the Conservatives have changed into a party that can again be trusted after 30 years with the greatest, most cosmopolitan, multi-racial generous hearted city on earth in which there are huge and growing divisions between rich and poor.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

As snow-jobs go, this beats the Himalayas.

The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.

Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.

Under no circumstances would we agree to any free-trade deal that put the NHS on the table.

Howard is a dynamic performer on many levels. There you are. He sent me to Liverpool. Marvellous place. Howard was the most effective Home Secretary since Peel. Hang on, was Peel Home Secretary?

[A trade deal with America can not be achieved if the UK remained] in the lunar pull of Brussels

Let's get Brexit done, but first my friends let's get breakfast done.

If you do that you have to answer the question what next? What if the Iranians do rush for a nuclear weapon? Are we seriously saying that we are going to bomb those facilities at Fordo and Natanz? Is that really a realistic possibility? Or do we work round what we have got and push back on Iran together?

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

[On the assumption Carrie Symonds, now Johnson, had briefed against Dominic Cummings] She hasn't briefed anyone and my instructions to all were to shut the f*** up. How is any of us supposed to know where these briefings come from?
Look at the claims made on behalf of allies of Lee [Cain] and Dom, that I'm out in six months, that I can't take decisions, that Carrie is secretly forging lockdown policy, and about a billion equally demented claims. Are you responsible for all that crap? No. Then look at it from my point of view.
This is a totally disgusting orgy of narcissism by a government that should be solving a national crisis.

[There has been a] collective failure of government, and a collapse of will by the British establishment, to deliver on the mandate of the people.