Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson MP (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, author, and former journalist who has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson was Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Ideologically, he identifies as a one-nation conservative. - from Wikipedia
“if there was no agreement by that date, "then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on".”
“We cannot now try to edit or censor our past. We cannot pretend to have a different history. Those statues teach us about our past, with all its faults.”
“We cannot now try to edit or censor our past. We cannot pretend to have a different history. The statues in our cities and towns were put up by previous generations.”
“They had different perspectives, different understandings of right and wrong. But those statues teach us about our past, with all its faults. To tear them down would be to lie about our history, and impoverish the education of generations to come”
“We now need to stress that anyone who can't work from home, for instance those in construction or manufacturing, should be actively encouraged to go to work.”
“The time has now come for us all to do more.From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction - you must stay at home. (…) No Prime Minister wants to enact measures like this.I know the damage that this disruption is doing and will do to people’s lives, to their businesses and to their jobs.”
“[Y]ou have to ask yourself whether that kind of approach to funding a TV media organisation still makes sense in the long term given the way other media organisations manage to fund themselves. The system of funding out of effectively a general tax bears reflection. How long can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a TV has to pay to fund a particular set of TV and radio channels?””
“But you have to ask yourself whether that kind of approach to funding a TV media organisation still makes sense in the long term given the way other media organisations manage to fund themselves ... The system of funding out of effectively a general tax bears reflection. How long can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a TV has to pay to fund a particular set of TV and radio channels?”
