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
Boris Johnson quotes about
I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
I'm a one-nation Tory.
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
It's economically illiterate. A degree in classics or philosophy can be as valuable as anything else.
But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
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.
Ken doesn't think he's got anything to say sorry for and if that's really his feeling, then I think that he should stick to his guns.
The Tory Party - the funkiest, most jiving Party on Earth!
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.