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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson ist ein britischer Publizist und Politiker der Conservative Party. Von 1999 bis Dezember 2005 war Johnson Herausgeber des konservativen Nachrichtenmagazins The Spectator. Seit 2015 vertritt er den Wahlkreis Uxbridge and South Ruislip im Westen Greater Londons im Unterhaus, dem er von 2001 bis 2008 bereits für Henley angehört hatte. Von Mai 2008 bis Mai 2016 war er Londoner Bürgermeister, von Juli 2016 bis Juli 2018 britischer Außenminister.

Johnson führte die Kampagne der Befürworter eines EU-Austritts des Vereinigten Königreichs vor dem Referendum am 23. Juni 2016 an und galt damals als einer der Favoriten für die Nachfolge des Premiers David Cameron.

✵ 19. Juni 1964
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“The only thing they've got to do is clear the dead bodies away”

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Theresa May faces calls to sack Boris Johnson over Libya comments https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/03/sirte-can-become-a-holiday-destination-if-it-clears-the-dead-bodies-says-johnson, in the Guardian; published October 4, 2017 <br class="br">2017 <br class="br">Kontext: There&#x27;s a group of UK business people, wonderful guys who want to invest in. The only thing they&#x27;ve got to do is clear the dead bodies away and then they&#x27;ll be there.

“I'm backing David Cameron's campaign out of pure, cynical self-interest.”

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"Conference Diary", The Independent, 5 October 2005, p. 7.
On The 2005 Conservative Leadership Contest.
2000s, 2005

“As snow-jobs go, this beats the Himalayas.”

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"The BBC was doing its job - bring back Gilligan", Daily Telegraph, 29 January 2004, p. 21.
Reaction to the Hutton Report.
2000s, 2004

“We can all spend an awfully long time going over lots of stuff that I’ve written over the last 30 years… all of which in my view have been taken out of context, but never mind… I’m afraid that there is such a rich thesaurus now of things that I have said that have been one way or another, through what alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued that it would take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all concerned.”

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in his first meeting with the press during visit by US Secretary of state John Kerry in July 2016 &quot;Theresa May dodges question about Boris Johnson&#x27;s use of racial slurs&quot; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pmqs-theresa-may-boris-johnson-racist-slur-picanninies-party-kenyan-obama-dodges-question-uk-foreign-a7146126.html, Independent (July 20, 2016); &quot;Kerry poker-faced as press takes Johnson to task for &#x27;outright lies&#x27;&quot; http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/boris-johnson-john-kerry-presser/index.html, CNN (July 20, 2016) <br class="br">2010s, 2016

“I have not had an affair with Petronella. It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle. It is all completely untrue and ludicrous conjecture. I am amazed people can write this drivel.”

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Simon Walters, "Boris, Petsy and a 'pyramid of piffle'", Mail on Sunday, 7 November 2004, p. 7.
Denying accusations of his having an affair with Petronella Wyatt.
2000s, 2004

“Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.”

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"A wise guy playing the fool to win", Sunday Times, 16 July 2000, p. 17.
While at the Daily Telegraph, explaining why his work was usually late.
2000s, 2000

“My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”

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&quot; Trust me, being sacked isn&#x27;t all bad http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/12/02/do0202.xml&quot;, Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2004, p. 26. <br class="br">On being sacked from the Tory front bench. <br class="br">2000s, 2004

“Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.”

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David Charter, Joanna Bale, "Tories suggest door will open for Boris Johnson to return", The Times, 15 November 2004, p. 7.
Asked how he was feeling after being sacked as Shadow Arts Minister for having misled Michael Howard.
2000s, 2004

“If we left the EU, we would end this sterile debate, and we would have to recognise that most of our problems are not caused by “Bwussels”, but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills, a culture of easy gratification and underinvestment in both human and physical capital and infrastructure.”

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Telegraph article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10052646/Quitting-the-EU-wont-solve-our-problems-says-Boris-Johnson.html (12 May 2013)<br>Peking university, Beijing (14 October 2013) Joint speech to students http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/14/boris-johnson-charm-offensive-china <br class="br">2010s, 2013

“Look, I wouldn't trust Harriet Harman's political judgement.”

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&quot; BBC News Video Interview http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7378792.stm&quot;, BBC News, 2nd May 2008 <br class="br">When told the Harriet Harman (Labour Politician) thought he had won the election for London Mayor. <br class="br">2008

“What we hate, what we fear, is being ignored.”

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On the fears of MPs.
Quelle: "Labour's cleaning up on the council tax", 21 April 2005, p. 24.

“He's lost the plot, people tell me. He's drifting rudderless in the wide Sargasso Sea of New Labour's ideological vacuum.”

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"Blair dead in the water? No such luck", Daily Telegraph, 29 April 2004, p. 24.
On Tony Blair.
2000s, 2004

“I was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall, and I'd listen to this amazing crash from the greenhouse, next door, over, over in England, as everything I wrote from Brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the Tory Party, and it really gave me this, I suppose, rather weird sense of, of power.”

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Interviewed on Desert Island Discs http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00935b6, first broadcast on 30 October 2005, about his early journalistic career working for The Times and then as Brussels correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. In fact, rather than failing to beat another trainee to win a permanent position, he was sacked for falsifying a quotation http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6901161.stm. <br class="br">2000s, 2005

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