Thread by @ollybarratt

Boris Johnson:

'Isn't it amazing to be back here in person?'

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Boris Johnson:

'For months we've had one of the most open economies and societies'

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Boris Johnson:

'Let's hear it for Jon Bon Govey'

'Living proof that we, you all, represent the most jiving, hip, happening and funkopolitan party in the world'

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Boris Johnson thanks 'Our untiring, our unbeatable, our unbelievable NHS'

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Boris Johnson:

'We have a huge hole in the public finances... and our debt now stands at over £2trillion, and waiting lists will almost certainly go up before they come down'

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Boris Johnson on paying for health/social care:

'Does anyone seriously imagine we should not now be raising the funding to sort this out?'

'Margaret Thatcher would not have ignored the meteorite that has just crashed through public finances'

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Boris Johnson:

'We will use new technology so there is a single set of electronic records as patients pass between health and social care'

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Boris Johnson:

'I promised to fix this crisis and after decades of drift and dither... this govt that got Brexit done...is going to get social care done'

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Boris Johnson:

'After years of stagnation, more than a decade, wages are going up faster than when the pandemic began'

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Boris Johnson:

'The answer is to control immigration, to allow people of talent to come to this country, but not to use immigration as an excuse for a failure to invest'

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Boris Johnson:

'There is a huge philosophical difference between us and Labour because in their souls they don't like levelling up. They like levelling down.'

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Boris Johnson on Labour:

'They like kids to run races - I've seen this - where nobody actually wins. I have to tell you I don't think that is a good preparation for life.'

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Boris Johnson:

'It is still a grim fact that in this country, some kids will grow up in neighbourhoods that are much safer than others'

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Boris Johnson says Labour's drugs policy is:

'An answer that is straight from the powder rooms of north London dinner parties'

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Boris Johnson on Insulate Britain protesters:

'I say they're a confounded nuisance who are blocking ambulances, stopping people going about their daily lives.'

He says new powers will 'Insulate them snugly in prison where they belong'

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Boris Johnson:

'We will not rest until we have increased the successful prosecutions for rape'

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Boris Johnson:

'To many lying, cowardly men we are using the law's delay to get away with violence against women. We cannot and we will not stand for it.'

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Boris Johnson says Lord Frost is:

'The greatest Frost since the Great Frost of 1709'

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Boris Johnson:

'We know that a productive workforce needs the spur that comes with face to face meetings and water cooler gossip'

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Boris Johnson:

'Otters are returning to rivers they've been absent for decades'

'Build Back Beaver'

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Boris Johnson:

'I can't paint my own front door any colour I like. Has to be black.'

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Boris Johnson:

'It was capitalism that ensured we had a vaccine in less than a year'

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Boris Johnson on COP26:

'Can we keep alive the ambition of Paris to stop the planet heating by more than 1.5 degrees'?

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Boris Johnson:

'Did you see them last week? Hopelessly divided... their leader like a seriously rattled bus conductor... pushed this way and that by a Corbynista mob'

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Boris Johnson on Starmer

'If we listened to Captain Hindsight, today we'd still be in lockdown'

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Boris Johnson:

'Very few countries could have pulled off the Kabul airlift. An astonishing feat by our brave armed forces.'

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