TRUTH is important in politics. Never more so than today, when huge issues are at stake affecting the lives of every voter and the future of the nation and the world.
Political deceit is a form of theft. When people or businesses get money by deceit they face criminal charges. When politicians win power by deceit they can do vastly more harm, but face no penalty at all.
Our rulers expect us to comply with their laws and decrees, to pay the taxes they devise, to make the sacrifices they exhort on us, even sometimes to die in war.
In a democratic society, such obedience has to be earned. When our rulers use lies and misrepresentation they fray the bonds of loyalty we owe to the state.
Our rulers also ask us constantly to resist extremism from any part of the political or social spectrum. But when our rulers themselves peddle falsehood and fantasy they are no better than the extremists. They make any kind of extremism more plausible.
That is why it is vital to expose lying politicians.
Many disagree. They believe that it is in the nature of politicians to dissimulate and lie. They say that it is as futile to complain about this as to complain that wasps sting.
My answer is simple. Yes, it is true that politicians lie and cheat regularly. Yes, the culture of political lying and cheating has grown deeper and more pervasive. But that is no reason to let politicians get away with it.
Least of all Boris Johnson, who is uniquely deceitful among British prime ministers. I make this statement with authority having been a political correspondent for approaching 30 years.
In a short time, Mr Johnson and his ministers have set new standards. They tell untruths at a faster rate than the governments of Theresa May, David Cameron and Gordon Brown.
Even more than the Tony Blair government. And I was so appalled by the dishonesty of Mr Blair’s administration that I wrote a treatise, The Rise of Political Lying, on the subject.
Since then I have kept a dossier of political lies by British governments. This dossier suggests that the scale of political lying since Mr Johnson became prime minister has risen exponentially.
That’s why I decided to compile and publish this dossier of the lies, falsehoods, and misleading statements made by Mr Johnson and his colleagues.
We knew the prime minister already had a long record of mendacity and deceit when he entered Downing Street. As a young journalist, he was sacked from The Times (which later endorsed his Tory leadership campaign) for fabricating a quotation.
He was later sacked by Tory leader Michael Howard after dismissing accurate reports of his infidelity as an “inverted pyramid of piffle”. In a senior role in the Vote Leave campaign he made repeated misleading claims about the benefits of Brexit.
Since entering Downing Street, Mr Johnson — as my dossier proves — tells fibs about almost everything.
Some are relatively unimportant. Even this displays an attitude that the truth simply does not matter. All that counts is what the government wants people to believe at any one time.
But Mr Johnson and his ministers have also made misleading statements about important matters of state. About the boost to government spending at the heart of the Johnson domestic agenda. About the prorogation of parliament. Most important of all are the series of false and misleading statements about Brexit.
Within the term lying I include any statement deliberately intended to make its audience believe something which is less than the whole truth. It may be a statement known to be false at the time it was made. But it may also include statements which rely on partial or selective facts and those based on false inferences and interpretations.
Politicians — like people in any other walk of life — may make false statements in good faith. But it is then their duty to correct or retract a false statement the moment they know it to be inaccurate. If they continue to rely on it they turn it into a lie.
For example, Mr Johnson continually claimed in the referendum campaign that Brexit would generate an extra £350 million each week for the NHS.
When he first made this claim he may have genuinely believed it. But he went on making it long after it had been debunked.
When the prime minister or any of his ministers have uttered something they ought to have known was untrue, I say so explicitly — and call them liars.
Lesser offences of selective presentation will go into a less serious category of misrepresentation or falsehood.
I have gone to great lengths to make sure that this dossier will be accurate, fair, and balanced. All claims are hyperlinked to the source material. If I make mistakes, I will correct them as soon as they are brought to my attention and I will make clear I have prominently corrected them on the website. Equally, readers of this website are encouraged to contact me with fresh lies or false representations from Mr Johnson and his government at this address. I will then sift, check and verify them before publication.
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21 APRIL 2022
“The PM has always been clear that he’s happy to face whatever inquiries Parliament sees fit and is happy for the House to decide how it wishes to proceed today and therefore will not be whipping Conservative MP’s.”
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21 APRIL 2022
“I’ve always acted, I believe, in good faith with regard to what I’ve said to Parliament”
Rishi Sunak, BBC
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20 APRIL 2022
“pro-Russia comments and sympathies…Kremlin sympathiser”
Oliver Dowden describing Jeremy Corbyn in a letter to Keir Starmer
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20 APRIL 2022
“He (Starmer) would have elected a Putin apologist, that’s what he wanted to do, he campaigned to do that”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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20 APRIL 2022
“more people in work than there were before the pandemic”.
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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7 APRIL 2022
“PM’s independent adviser on ministerial interests has confirmed he is completely satisfied with the Chancellor’s propriety of arrangements…followed the Ministerial Code to the letter”
Treasury spokesman, The Times
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7 APRIL 2022
‘That’s right.’ when asked whether the funding increase from national insurance came on top of the extra £350 million a week that we get from leaving the EU.
Sajid Javid, LBC with Nick Ferrari
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2 APRIL 2022
“We’ve now seen actually the biggest reduction in tax for about a quarter of a century.”
Brandon Lewis, Sky News
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31 MARCH 2022
“Sharing this very intimate story would have taken an immense amount of courage. Thank you @JamieWallisMP for your bravery, which will undoubtedly support others. The Conservative Party I lead will always give you, and everyone else, the love and suppo…”
Boris Johnson, Twitter
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30 MARCH 2022
“I think I took steps to correct the record earlier.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons Select Committee
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30 MARCH 2022
“The Conservative Party I lead will always give you, and everyone else, the love and support you need to be yourself”
Boris Johnson, Twitter
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28 MARCH 2022
“The vast majority of people coming across the Channel are economic migrants, they are not asylum seekers. The vast majority are men between the ages of 18 and 40 coming from Iraq and Iran primarily.”
Tory MP Scott Benton, BBC2 Politics Live
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22 MARCH 2022
“The EU would not allow us to do this, another benefit of Brexit.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Twitter
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22 MARCH 2022
“We’ll take them to court. We’ll defend the rights of British workers.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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22 MARCH 2022
“The law that P&O are allegedly relying on was introduced as a result of EU directives… He [Starmer] would have kept us unable to change it… He would have made it impossible to protect UK employees”.
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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20 MARCH 2022
“The actions of this government and previous Conservative governments over the last ten years have meant there are over a million people fewer living in poverty today”.
Rishi Sunak, BBC
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19 MARCH 2022
“They’re not directly analogous but I don’t think that the Prime Minister would have said they were either.”
Rishi Sunak, Sophy Ridge on Sunday
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19 MARCH 2022
“Do you know what? I really think the British people want to see a bit more Conservative pragmatism, and a bit less net zero dogma”.
Oliver Dowden, Tory Party Spring Conference
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18 MARCH 2022
“It’s the instinct of the people of this country, like the people of Ukraine, to choose freedom, every time…When the British people voted for Brexit in such large, large numbers…it’s because they wanted to be free to do things differently.”
Boris Johnson, Tory Party Conference
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13 MARCH 2022
“[For] a Ukrainian living and working here [on a visa], you will be able to bring your family here into the UK under the extended family scheme”
Sajid Javid, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
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9 MARCH 2022
“The UK Government’s Ukraine Family Scheme is the first visa scheme in the world to launch since President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.”
Home Office, Twitter
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6 MARCH 2022
“I think we have taken more vulnerable people fleeing theatres of conflict since 2015 than any other country in Europe.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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5 MARCH 2022
“Asked whether he supported an overall increase in spending, Mr Wallace insisted that he had already secured £24 billion of additional defence funding”
Ben Wallace, Defence Secretary, The Telegraph
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4 MARCH 2022
“The courage of these journalists, putting themselves in terrifying and dangerous situations, is astonishing to watch. They’re risking their lives to ensure that the truth is told. Free press will not be intimidated or cowed by barbaric and indiscrimi…”
Boris Johnson, Twitter
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4 MARCH 2022
The UK has sanctioned £258.8 billion of Russian bank assets, while the US has sanctioned £240 billion and the EU £38.8 billion.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Twitter
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1 MARCH 2022
The UK sanctioned “275 individuals already, a further 100 last week, the impact is being felt”.
Boris Johnson, Prime Ministers Questions
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1 MARCH 2022
This Government are building a record number of hospitals—a total of 48—across the country.
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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1 MARCH 2022
“I am sure that if the Opposition want a security briefing from our colleagues, we will happily provide one, but I am very sceptical about how they treat and respect security advice.”
Priti Patel, House of Commons debate on Ukraine
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28 FEBRUARY 2022
“More than 200,000” Ukrainian refugees could be allowed to come to the UK
Boris Johnson, Speaking during a visit to Poland
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26 FEBRUARY 2022
“That is something people can make their own decisions about”
Liz Truss, BBC One’s Sunday Morning Programme
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22 FEBRUARY 2022
“430,000 more in employment now than there were before the pandemic began”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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22 FEBRUARY 2022
“I have seen absolutely no evidence of successful Russian interference in any electoral event.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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22 FEBRUARY 2022
“The largest single corporate donation to the Labour party came from a member of the Chinese communist party.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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21 FEBRUARY 2022
“At every key decision point the PM has been bitterly opposed by Keir Starmer. But time and again the PM has been vindicated.”
Lord Zac Goldsmith, Twitter
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20 FEBRUARY 2022
“Trusting in personal responsibility appears to exist only on the Government side of the House”
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock, House of Commons
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16 FEBRUARY 2022
“I think the evidence that Brexit has caused trade drops is few and far between.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, BBC
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10 FEBRUARY 2022
“Fundamental to the rule of law is also democracy and I’m very proud to be supporting this PM – a PM who has honoured democracy by delivering Brexit.”
Suella Braverman, House of Commons
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8 FEBRUARY 2022
“the Leader of the Opposition not only voted 48 times to go back into the EU—yes he did!”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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2 FEBRUARY 2022
Energy prices have risen because “we have had a colder than usual winter.”
Rishi Sunak, The Sun
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1 FEBRUARY 2022
“The majority of them are people that are not claiming asylum or fleeing persecution.”
Priti Patel, House of Commons
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30 JANUARY 2022
“That money is now in the NHS.”
Simon Clarke, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Sky News
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30 JANUARY 2022
Sir Keir Starmer “spent most of his time [as DPP] prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”.
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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30 JANUARY 2022
“[Sir Keir Starmer] voted 48 times to take this country back into the European Union.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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26 JANUARY 2022
“I’m told under some authority, indeed from him, that there actually wasn’t a cake.”
Conor Burns, The Telegraph
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25 JANUARY 2022
“[Keir Starmer] voted 48 times to take this country back into the European Union.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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25 JANUARY 2022
“behind the scenes the right hon. Gentleman [Ian Blackford] and I co-operate well”
Boris Johnson, Prime Ministers Questions
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24 JANUARY 2022
“The leadership of Boris Johnson this country has had has been so brilliant that he has got us through this incredibly difficult period and he’s got all the big decisions right”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Sky News
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23 JANUARY 2022
“Any minister who has been found to have misled parliament is a resigning matter and I think all of us agree on that.”
Nadhim Zahawi, Good Morning Britain
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22 JANUARY 2022
“420,000 more people in work now than at the start of the pandemic”
Nadine Dorries, Twitter
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22 JANUARY 2022
“We have absolutely zero tolerance for any discrimination, any Islamophobia, in the Conservative party.”
Dominic Raab, Sky News
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20 JANUARY 2022
The cycle of escalating violence in and from Yemen must stop. We urge all parties to exercise restraint and avoid further civilian casualties and suffering.
James Cleverly, Twitter
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19 JANUARY 2022
“I have seen no evidence, heard no evidence to support any of those allegations”
Boris Johnson, Sky News
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18 JANUARY 2022
“Thanks to the efforts of people across Whitehall, this country is now capable of producing 80% of our own PPE.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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18 JANUARY 2022
“I think we have taken the right decisions on the whole and we have got the big calls right”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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18 JANUARY 2022
“The people who are doing this are being disloyal to the Prime Minister, the party, their constituents and the wider country.”
Nadine Dorries, The Times
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18 JANUARY 2022
“Yes I do” think Boris Johnson always tells the truth.
Stuart Anderson (Tory MP), Sky News
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18 JANUARY 2022
The UK had “biggest and most generous furlough scheme virtually anywhere in the world.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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19 JANUARY 2022
“if we had listened to the Opposition, we would have stayed in the European Medicines Agency and we would never have been able to deliver the vaccine roll-out at the speed that we did.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
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17 JANUARY 2022
“We now have 420,000 more people in employment than there were before the pandemic began.”
Boris Johnson, Sky News
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17 JANUARY 2022
“If it’s lying, deliberate in the way you describe, if it’s not corrected immediately, it would normally, under the Ministerial Code and the governance around parliament, be a resigning matter.”
Dominic Raab, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
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15 JANUARY 2022
“This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors, are over.”
Nadine Dorries, Twitter
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13 JANUARY 2022
“The Secretary of State for Wales is called Simon Hart”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, House of Commons
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11 JANUARY 2022
“We now have […] the fastest growing economy in the G7”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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12 JANUARY 2022
“I’ve spoken to constituents and they’ve done nothing but express support for the Prime Minister…I haven’t spoke to a single constituent that is angry.”
Nadine Dorries, Sky News
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12 JANUARY 2022
“It is an astonishing fact that we have 420,000 more people in work than before the pandemic began.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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11 JANUARY 2022
“She asks if I have confidence in the Prime Minister’s integrity and honour and I do.”
Michael Ellis (Paymaster General), House of Commons
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9 JANUARY 2022
“90% of the people who are in ICU with Covid have not been vaccinated.”
Boris Johnson, Sky News
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9 JANUARY 2022
“Unlike what Labour wanted to do, which was to lock down before Christmas”
Nadhim Zahawi, BBC Sunday Morning
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6 JANUARY 2022
“I would particularly note that it is thanks to the fact that we are not in the European Union that we were able to move so quickly” with the vaccine rollout.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, House of Commons
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5 JANUARY 2022
Labour “said that we needed a road map to lockdown” after the emergence of the Omicron variant.
Boris Johnson, Prime Ministers Questions
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5 JANUARY 2022
“If we were to do what Labour would do, go back into the EU and remain aligned with the EU single market. That is the objective of the Labour party.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Ministers Questions
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5 JANUARY 2022
“If we look at the statistics, we see that economic inequality is down in this country. Income inequality is down and poverty is down.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Ministers Question’s
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5 JANUARY 2022
“[There are] 2.2 million people supported with the Warm Homes Discount, Mr Speaker, worth £140 per week.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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5 JANUARY 2022
“Of course, I said no such thing because inflation is always something that we have to be careful about.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
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4 JANUARY 2022
“Never forget that [TfL] was left with a very considerable sum of money by the previous mayor, who left the coffers full.”
Boris Johnson, Coronavirus Press Briefing
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31 DECEMBER 2021
Brexit has allowed to the UK to “restore the crown stamp on to the side of pint glasses”
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18 DECEMBER 2021
“We have the most successful vaccination program in Europe.”
Sajid Javid, Andrew Marr Show
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16 DECEMBER 2021
“I’ve not noticed any difficulty in access to products from the European Union. Our exports to the European Union are particularly well.”
Lord Frost, House of Lords
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16 DECEMBER 2021
“I’m pleased to announce today an increase of up to £1.1 billion for police funding next year.”
Priti Patel, Twitter
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15 DECEMBER 2021
“I follow the rules. Everybody across politics should follow the rules.”
Boris Johnson, Downing Street Press Conference
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15 DECEMBER 2021
It is “not true” that the government relied on Labour votes to get new Covid-19 measures through parliament
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
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14 DECEMBER 2021
“We decide what our risk appetite is, and what we’re prepared to encounter and what we’re prepared to not. Not withstanding the carnage on our roads, certainly killing more people than Covid at the moment, some of us still decide to drive.”
Sir Desmond Swayne, House of Commons
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11 DECEMBER 2021
There was “No alcohol on the table” at the No 10 Christmas Quiz
Nadhim Zahawi, Sky News
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12 DECEMBER 2021
“Everyone eligible aged 18 and over in England will have the chance to get their booster before the New Year.”
Boris Johnson, Address to the Nation
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12 DECEMBER 2021
“The Prime Minister said to the best of his knowledge there were no parties”
Nadim Zahawi, Trevor Philips on Sunday
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10 DECEMBER 2021
“I feel very comfortable about the Prime Minister’s integrity.”
Paul Scully, BBC Breakfast
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8 DECEMBER 2021
“The NHS already had the £350m on the side of the bus. That was delivered by my right honourable friend the member for Maidenhead in 2018, with an extra 34bn uplift to the NHS by 2023.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, House of Commons
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9 DECEMBER 2021
“The Prime Minister is a man of honour and integrity”
Michael Ellis, Paymaster General, House of Commons
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8 DECEMBER 2021
“I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no covid rules were broken.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Ministers Questions
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6 DECEMBER 2021
“I think you can be assured that due diligence has been followed on that.”
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6 DECEMBER 2021
“As press secretary set out on a number of occasions when questioned about this originally, there was not a party and Covid rules have been followed at all times.”
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6 DECEMBER 2021
“I don’t even know if an event took place, but if it did, no rules were broken.”
Kit Malthouse, BBC Breakfast
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3 DECEMBER 2021
“I have been assured by colleagues that Covid guidance has been followed at all times in Downing Street.”
Simon Jupp (Tory MP), Letter to Constituent
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3 DECEMBER 2021
The food and drink “export market is growing all the time”.
Boris Johnson, UK Food and Drink Showcase
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1 DECEMBER 2021
“We don’t recognise these accounts and all Covid rules have been followed at all times.”
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1 DECEMBER 2021
“All guidance was followed completely in No. 10”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
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27 NOVEMBER 2021
“This is a government that delivers on its promises”
Sajid Javid, Trevor Phillips On Sunday
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24 NOVEMBER 2021
“There is no link between party donations and nominations to sit in the House of Lords”
Nigel Adams, Cabinet Office Minister, House of Commons
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23 NOVEMBER 2021
“There are more people in work than there were before the pandemic began.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
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23 NOVEMBER 2021
“I’ve seen [Boris Johnson] wear a mask and I think he’s very conscientious about the guidelines”
Dominic Raab, Sky News
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24 NOVEMBER 2021
“There are now more people in work than there were before the pandemic began.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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23 NOVEMBER 2021
“Channel 4’s been established as a public service broadcaster, and… it’s in receipt of public money.”
Nadine Dorries, House of Commons Select Committee
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16 NOVEMBER 2021
“The old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European landmass are over”.
Boris Johnson, Defence Select Committee
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10 NOVEMBER 2021
“I just want to say the most important thing is that those (MPs) who break the rules must be investigated and should be punished.”
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27 OCTOBER 2021
“in the last 12 months alone 70% of the individuals who have come to our country illegally via small boats are single men, who are effectively economic migrants. They are not genuine asylum seekers.”
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27 OCTOBER 2021
“The government are accepting [the Low Pay Commission’s] recommendation to increase the National Living Wage next year by 6.6 per cent, to £9.50 an hour. For a full-time worker, that’s a pay rise worth over £1,000.”
Rishi Sunak, Budget speech
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27 OCTOBER 2021
“Once again it is the Conservatives – and only the Conservatives – who can be trusted with taxpayers’ money.”
Rishi Sunak, Budget speech 2021
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25 OCTOBER 2021
“Freeports are one of the many advantages that all the nations of the United Kingdom can enjoy as a result of our departure from the European Union.”
Michael Gove, House of Commons
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20 OCTOBER 2021
“We’ve already seen £100bn in the last nine years deployed in offshore wind in one particular renewables sector.”
Kwasi Kwarteng, BBC Radio 4
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6 OCTOBER 2021
“This party that has looked after the NHS for most of its history should be the one to rise to the challenge – 48 new hospitals.”
Boris Johnson, Conservative party conference speech
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6 OCTOBER 2021
“We have done 68 free trade deals, and that great free trade deal with our friends in the EU”
Boris Johnson, Conservative party conference speech
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6 OCTOBER 2021
“We will make this country an even more attractive destination for foreign direct investment. We are already number one.”
Boris Johnson, Conservative party conference speech
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6 OCTOBER 2021
“’What’s Labour’s answer [to drug dealing] by the way? To decriminalise hard drugs apparently – to let the dealers off with a caution’”
Boris Johnson, Conservative party conference speech
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6 OCTOBER 2021
“We now have the fastest growth in the G7”
Boris Johnson, Conservative party conference speech
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5 OCTOBER 2021
“The freedom to protest is a fundamental right our party will forever fight to uphold.”
Priti Patel, Conservative Party Conference
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15 SEPTEMBER 2021
“From 6 April 2022 to 5 April 2023 National Insurance contributions will increase by 1.25%”
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14 SEPTEMBER 2021
Neighbours “absolutely should” call the police to report lockdown breaches
Kit Malthouse, Minister of State for Crime and Policing, BBC Radio 4
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8 SEPTEMBER 2021
The famous £350m per week from Brexit “has gone into the health and social care service”
Sajid Javid, LBC
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8 SEPTEMBER 2021
“We are the party of free enterprise, the private sector and low taxation.”
Boris Johnson, 1922 Committee
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31 AUGUST 2021
“Right the way through to the evacuation we’ve done everything we can to stand up an excellent emergency response team in the FCDO.”
Dominic Raab, BBC Breakfast
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31 AUGUST 2021
“I think history will judge: 17,000 people given safe passage is without precedent”
Dominic Raab, BBC Breakfast
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26 AUGUST 2021
“We continue to increase the living wage last time by a record amount..”
Boris Johnson, BBC News
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26 AUGUST 2021
“We think that we’ve got the overwhelming majority of those eligible.”
Boris Johnson, BBC News
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26 AUGUST 2021
“The government has committed to the delivery of all 48 hospitals by 2030 — and these plans remain on track.”
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19 AUGUST 2021
“Looking forward to opening one of new 48 hospitals later today.”
Sajid Javid, Twitter
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18 AUGUST 2021
“I can announce today that we are committing to relocating another 5,000 Afghans this year, with a new and bespoke resettlement scheme focusing on the most vulnerable, particularly women and children.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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18 AUGUST 2021
“What is not true is to say that the UK Government was unprepared or did not forsee this, because it was certainly part of our planning”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
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17 AUGUST 2021
“The Foreign Secretary was engaged on a range of other calls and this one was delegated to another minister.”
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15 AUGUST 2021
“This has in many ways been a chronicle of an event foretold…we’ve known for a long time that this was the way things were going.”
Boris Johnson, Interview with the Daily Mail
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12 AUGUST 2021
“Over the course of this parliament […] we will be spending 100 billion more every year than we did at the beginning. That’s why we’re going to be able to have 50,000 more nurses, 20,000 more police officers, 40 new hospitals.”
Rishi Sunak, Sky News
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2 AUGUST 2021
“More trade will not come at the expense of the environment”.
Boris Johnson, Letter to Greenpeace
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2 AUGUST 2021
“Any donation made to the Conservative party is properly and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission and published by them.”
Amanda Milling, Letter to Annaliese Dodds [Letter]
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2 AUGUST 2021
“Government policy is in no way influenced by donations the party receives – they are entirely separate.”
Amanda Milling, letter to Anneliese Dodds [Letter]
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27 JULY 2021
“Section 60 [stop and search] orders can play an important part in fighting crime”
Boris Johnson, Interview about his Beating Crime plan
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27 JULY 2021
Stop and Search orders are a “kind and a loving thing to do.”
Boris Johnson, Interview about his Beating Crime plan
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22 JULY 2021
“I was no brexiteer, but I must say that for farming and fishing I think we have really gained from Brexit.”
Victoria Prentis, House of Commons
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22 JULY 2021
“Nobody had any idea the actual effects of [the Northern Ireland Protocol] until we left the EU”.
Kwasi Kwarteng, Sky News
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21 JULY 2021
“Our intelligence agencies are governed by a robust regulatory framework to ensure that any capabilities are always used in a way that is legal, necessary and proportionate – something we ask of all nations.”
Lord True, House of Lords
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21 JULY 2021
The government is in “active discussions with EU member states on bilateral arrangements” for the return of asylum seekers.
Priti Patel, House of Commons home affairs select committee
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19 JULY 2021
“around 60% of the people being admitted to hospital with Covid have been double vaccinated.”
Patrick Vallance, News Conference
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19 JULY 2021
“Brexit will be hugely in the interests of everybody in this country”
Lord Frost, House of Lords
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18 JULY 2021
“We did look briefly at the idea of us taking part in the pilot”
Boris Johnson, Twitter
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16 JULY 2021
The conservative government ensured that the “number of people in poverty had fallen” in the years ahead of the coronavirus pandemic.
Rishi Sunak, BBC News
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15 JULY 2021
“Our plans to deliver 40 new hospitals across the country by 2030 will help us build a better NHS and transform NHS services for local communities. The selection process for the further 8 new schemes is a huge opportunity for more areas to benefit…”
Sajid Javid, Announcement of 8 new hospitals
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14 JULY 2021
“We made it absolutely clear that no-one should boo the England team.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Ministers Questions
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13 JULY 2021
“On tariffs, [we’re] reducing the European Union’s 40% tariffs on food from Africa”.
George Freeman, Newsnight
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12 JULY 2021
“I am disgusted the @England players who have given so much for our country this summer have been subject to vile racist abuse on social media. It has no place in our country and I back the police to hold those responsible accountable.”
Priti Patel, Twitter
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12 JULY 2021
“This England team deserve to be lauded as heroes, not racially abused on social media. Those responsible for this appalling abuse should be ashamed of themselves.”
Boris Johnson, Twitter
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8 JULY 2021
It was “always clear” that trade was only unfettered from Northern Ireland to Great Britain
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8 JULY 2021
“There is no military path to victory for the Taliban….I do not believe that the Taliban are guaranteed the kind of victory that we sometimes read about.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons debate on Afghanistan
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8 JULY 2021
“Every single procurement decision went through an eight-stage process.”
Michael Gove, House of Commons
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8 JULY 2021
“Income inequality was lower coming into the [pandemic] crisis than when the Conservatives first came into office.”
Rishi Sunak, BBC Radio 4
-
7 JULY 2021
“It is common sense for people in confined spaces to wear a face mask, out of respect and courtesy for others.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
29 JUNE 2021
“all PPE offers, no matter where they came from, went through the same eight-stage checks.”
Julia Lopez, House of Commons
-
28 JUNE 2021
“Both the former health secretary and Lord Bethell understand the rules around personal email usage and only ever conducted government business through their departmental email addresses.”
-
28 JUNE 2021
“I read the story on Friday and we’ve got a new Health Secretary in post on Saturday and I think that’s about the right place to proceed in a pandemic.”
-
23 JUNE 2021
Brexit “has given us the freedom to establish eight freeports across the country”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
21 JUNE 2021
“If we had followed the advice of the right hon. and learned Gentleman we would have stayed in the European Medicines Agency and would never have had the vaccine roll-out at all.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
16 JUNE 2021
“We have the toughest border measures anywhere in the world.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
15 JUNE 2021
“The Government formally consulted Sir Brian on whether to proceed with part 2 and decided that it was no longer appropriate, proportionate or in the public interest to proceed”
Priti Patel, House of Commons
-
15 JUNE 2021
“The media must be able to report the facts without fear or favour – they are the lifeblood of our democracy.”
Boris Johnson, Twitter
-
13 JUNE 2021
“Government policy is in no way influenced by the donations the party receives – they are entirely separate”
-
9 JUNE 2021
“Six million kids, six million children will have access to tuition thanks to this programme. It is a fantastic thing. It is a revolution in education for this country.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
6 JUNE 2021
The claim that the government “threw a protective ring around care homes” “came much later”.
Matt Hancock, The Andrew Marr Show
-
4 JUNE 2021
Participants in the daily contact testing study selected “at random”
-
27 MAY 2021
Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill did not lose faith in Hancock’s honesty
-
23 MAY 2021
Herd immunity was “absolutely not” the policy until March 2020.
Priti Patel, The Andrew Marr Show
-
21 MAY 2021
The government’s decision to leave a 12-week gap between vaccine doses “has saved around 12,000 lives”
Matt Hancock, Statement
-
20 MAY 2021
“We will want to see our fantastic frontline workers paid properly. That is, I think, the best way forward. I want to see our NHS staff paid properly, our NHS supported.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
18 MAY 2021
Liz Truss’ trip to Singapore cost the taxpayer £25,699.24
-
17 MAY 2021
“The UK is a global leader in tackling plastic pollution.”
-
7 MAY 2021
“I think I’m punctilious to a fault. I’m a stickler, like all Telegraph journalists.”
Boris Johnson, The Telegraph
-
7 MAY 2021
“It’s thanks to Brexit that we’ve actually been able to go ahead with the FreePort in the whole of Teeside.”
Boris Johnson, on a visit to Hartlepool
-
3 MAY 2021
“Boris Johnson has delivered Brexit and 180,000 well paid jobs” for Hartlepool.
Nadine Dorries, Twitter
-
29 APRIL 2021
Boris Johnson “has brought honesty [and] commitment” to politics
Nadhim Zahawi, BBC Radio 5 Live
-
28 APRIL 2021
“The Prime Minister follows the ministerial code and Nolan Principles when conducting himself in public life.”
-
28 APRIL 2021
“I paid for Downing Street refurbishments personally”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
26 APRIL 2021
Johnson denies saying that he would “let the bodies pile high in their thousands”
-
25 APRIL 2021
“The Prime Minister has complied at all stages with the rules and we’ve been very clear on that.”
Ben Wallace, Radio 4 Today Programme
-
21 APRIL 2021
“I am happy to share all the details with the House, as indeed I’ve shared them with my officials, immediately.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
29 MARCH 2021
Johnson “acts with integrity and honesty and he follows the Nolan principles when conducting himself in public life.”
-
25 MARCH 2021
“Transparency drives everything that the Government do”
Michael Gove, House of Commons
-
24 MARCH 2021
“You can take the lawyer out of Islington but you can’t take Islington out of the lawyer.”
Boris Johnson, meeting with Conservative backbenchers
-
18 MARCH 2021
“As he made crystal clear in his full answer, the UK always stands up for and speaks out on human rights”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, House of Commons
-
18 MARCH 2021
Comments made by Raab about trade with countries that violate human rights were “shockingly distorted by low-quality journalism”.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, House of Commons
-
17 MARCH 2021
“No honourable member on any side would actually mislead or lie to the House.”
Sir Lindsay Hoyle, House of Commons
-
16 MARCH 2021
“Inflation is below 1% and therefore a proposed 1% pay rise is indeed a pay rise, and that’s simply a matter of fact.”
Matt Hancock, HoC Health and Social Care Committee
-
15 MARCH 2021
“I have worked closely with the Police Federation in developing this bill”
Priti Patel, House of Commons
-
10 MARCH 2021
“I think it’s very very good that we’re not only maintaining the jobs in the NHS but we’re actually moving to have 50,000 more nurses.”
Grant Shapps, BBC Breakfast
-
10 MARCH 2021
Starmer “voted against the document in question”.
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
6 MARCH 2021
“Inbound and outbound flows (across all UK ports) were close to normal, at 95% outbound and 96% inbound, in spite of the impact of Covid lockdowns on trade.”
The Cabinet Office, Rebuttal to an article in the Observer
-
2 MARCH 2021
“the UK is powering forward with the transition away from coal for power generation”
Anne-Marie Trevelyan, PPCA Summit
-
1 MARCH 2021
“Today, the UK renewed our commitment to providing vital #UKAid to the long suffering Yemeni people, with new support including hundreds of health clinics.”
James Cleverly, Twitter
-
26 FEBRUARY 2021
The government has “utter respect for the rule of law and the judiciary”
Robert Buckland, BBC Breakfast
-
24 FEBRUARY 2021
There would be “no such cut” to transport in the North
Boris Johnson, Prime Ministers’ Questions
-
24 FEBRUARY 2021
“The European Medicines Agency … would have made [the vaccine] rollout impossible.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
23 FEBRUARY 2021
It has been a “longstanding policy since 2009” to boycott the Muslim Council of Britain.
-
22 FEBRUARY 2021
Covid contracts were “on the record for everyone to see”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
9 FEBRUARY 2021
“The Myanmar Ambassador was summoned to the FCDO during the Rohingya crisis in 2017.”
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, statement made in an email to Peter Oborne
-
3 FEBRUARY 2021
“We are determined that no leaseholder should have to pay for the unaffordable costs of fixing safety defects that they didn’t cause and are no fault of their own.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
3 FEBRUARY 2021
EU ban on live shellfish from the UK is “legally wrong” and “unjustified”
-
27 JANUARY 2021
“On each occasion they took the best possible scientific and medical advice, they took their responsibilities extremely seriously.”
Robert Jenrick, Today Programme
-
26 JANUARY 2021
Military bases being used to house asylum speakers were of a “very strong standard” that is “in line with PHE guidance”.
Priti Patel, House of Commons
-
21 JANUARY 2021
“We are rolling out a vaccine programme that has now inoculated 4.2 million people in our country, whereas [Starmer] would have joined the EU scheme”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
19 JANUARY 2021
“The unfettered access was always about Northern Ireland businesses into Great Britain.”
Brandon Lewis, Sky News
-
17 JANUARY 2021
“Keir Starmer wants to scrap universal credit, withdrawing vital support from millions of people”
-
13 JANUARY 2021
“There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme”
-
13 JANUARY 2021
“It is a very, very long-standing provision in this country that no recourse to public funds conditions should apply for those who, for instance, are here illegally or unlawfully”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons Liaison Committee
-
13 JANUARY 2021
“We wanted to have reciprocal rights for musicians to tour, but before everybody worries about this I should stress that what we have is the right for UK musicians to go and play in other European countries—in EU countries—for 90 out of 180 days.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons Liaison Committee
-
5 JANUARY 2021
“We’ve put a huge amount obviously into NHS mental health care… I think about another £12 billion or so.”
Boris Johnson, Coronavirus Press Briefing
-
3 JANUARY 2021
“Schools are safe. Very, very important to stress that.”
Boris Johnson, The Andrew Marr Show
-
3 JANUARY 2021
“one of the things we’ve done on day one of leaving the European Union is to get rid of pulse trawling”.
Boris Johnson, The Andrew Marr Show
-
2 JANUARY 2021
“We have taken back control of our laws and banned pulse fishing in British waters to help safeguard our marine environment”
-
2 JANUARY 2021
The police and security services will have “stronger powers to keep this country safe and protect our homeland security” as a result of Brexit.
Priti Patel, The Daily Telegraph
-
28 DECEMBER 2020
“I’m sure there will be bumpy moments but we are there in order to try to do everything we can to smooth the path.”
Michael Gove, BBC Breakfast
-
24 DECEMBER 2020
“There’s some good language about equivalence for financial services.”
Boris Johnson, UK and EU Trade Deal announcement speech
-
24 DECEMBER 2020
Brexit deal “will if anything allow our companies and our exporters to do even more business with our European friends.”
Boris Johnson, UK and EU Trade Deal announcement speech
-
24 DECEMBER 2020
“There will be no non-tariff barriers to trade”
Boris Johnson, UK and EU Trade Deal announcement speech
-
24 DECEMBER 2020
“Actually it is only about 500 pages”
Boris Johnson, UK and EU Trade Deal announcement speech
-
22 DECEMBER 2020
“The government has consistently throughout this year been ahead of the curve in terms of proactive measures with regards to coronavirus.”
Priti Patel, Today Programme
-
21 DECEMBER 2020
“We have already been able to reduce the number of lorries waiting on the M20 from 500 to 170.”
Boris Johnson, Press Conference
-
16 DECEMBER 2020
“This Christmas it’s vital that everyone exercises the greatest possible personal responsibility.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s statement on coronavirus
-
10 DECEMBER 2020
“The EU has agreed that UK travellers can go on visa waiver to the EU for 90 days out of 100 days at a time”
Dominic Raab, Sky News
-
7 DECEMBER 2020
“We’ve increased school funding by a minimum of £5,150 per pupil.”
Conservative Party, Twitter
-
2 DECEMBER 2020
“A month ago, we changed the regulations to exempt us from requiring EU approval. We would still be waiting if we hadn’t. Thanks to #Brexit we can now move ahead swiftly and safely.”
Nadine Dorries, Twitter
-
2 DECEMBER 2020
“It is absolutely clear that because we’ve left the EU I was able to change the law so that the UK alone could make this authorisation decision.”
Matt Hancock, TalkRADIO
-
2 DECEMBER 2020
“We could only approve this vaccine so quickly because we have left the EU. Last month we changed the regulations so a vaccine did not need EU approval, which is slower.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Twitter
-
23 NOVEMBER 2020
“There is a particular duty on Ministers and Permanent Secretaries to create jointly across government a culture which is professional, respectful, focused and ambitious for change and in which there is no place for bullying.”
Boris Johnson, Letter to Ministers
-
20 NOVEMBER 2020
“There is one “first” that is still long overdue and that is the moment when – for the first time – we finally achieve 50:50 representation in our Parliament.”
Boris Johnson, Video in support of 50:50 parliament
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15 NOVEMBER 2020
“In a non-negotiated outcome, what would happen is companies like Arla, which is a big Danish company, sells brands like Lurpak in the UK that are manufactured in Denmark, they would have to relocate that production to the UK.”
George Eustice, Andrew Marr Show [Twitter]
-
5 NOVEMBER 2020
“It’s over a quarter of a million people being tested [per day]”
Robert Buckland, BBC News
-
2 NOVEMBER 2020
“In April, on schedule, we delivered the target of 100,000 tests a day”
Matt Hancock, House of Commons
-
27 OCTOBER 2020
“The bakers used a lot of soya sauce in the first challenge on #GBBO, so it’s a good thing it will be made cheaper thanks to our trade deal with Japan”
Department for International Trade, Twitter
-
26 OCTOBER 2020
“There has been communication between [Boris Johnson and Marcus Rashford]”
Matt Hancock, BBC Breakfast
-
22 OCTOBER 2020
“Brilliant news that there are now 13,718 more nurses and 7,810 more doctors than a year ago.”
Boris Johnson, Twitter
-
22 OCTOBER 2020
“We have two points of evidence; one is the evidence from King’s College London that shows that approximately one in 20 people with coronavirus is likely to have long-term symptoms, but the other evidence implies that in adults under 50, the proportion…
Matt Hancock, House of Commons
-
21 OCTOBER 2020
“The current mayor of London had effectively bankrupted TfL before coronavirus had even hit and left a massive black hole in its finances.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
19 OCTOBER 2020
“There are many areas in which we can co-operate more effectively to safeguard our borders outside the European Union than we ever could inside. Through a variety of methods and arrangements open to us…”
Michael Gove, House of Commons
-
18 OCTOBER 2020
“Number of People being tested is higher than ever before. 300,000 tests were administered on Friday.”
Michael Gove, Andrew Marr
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13 OCTOBER 2020
“The UK has been elected to the @UN #HumanRightsCouncil. We are committed to promoting human rights across the world. As demonstrated with our Magnitsky sanctions this year, we are committed to holding human rights abusers to account.”
Dominic Raab, Twitter
-
7 OCTOBER 2020
“The result of universal credit so far has been that there are 200,000 fewer people in absolute poverty now than there were in 2010.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
6 OCTOBER 2020
“This government is pressing on with its plan for 48 hospitals. Count them. That’s the eight already underway, and then 40 more between now and 2030.”
Boris Johnson, Conservative Party Conference Speech
-
6 OCTOBER 2020
“We believe that in ten years-time offshore wind will be powering every home in the country, with our target rising from 30 gigawatts to 40 gigawatts.”
Boris Johnson, Conservative Party Conference speech [The Times]
-
4 OCTOBER 2020
“I think we can prosper mightily under those circumstances”
Boris Johnson, BBC Andrew Marr Show
-
3 OCTOBER 2020
“We are getting on … with the things we said we would do to repair the country we inherited from Labour.”
James Cleverly, BBC Breakfast
-
2 OCTOBER 2020
“We protected the NHS through the peak of coronavirus. Today we recommit to protect the NHS for years to come with the 40 new hospitals we will build over the next decade.”
Matt Hancock, Gov Press Release
-
2 OCTOBER 2020
“From Morpeth to Milton Keynes, we are building 40 new hospitals across England to level up our NHS so more people have top-class healthcare services in their local area.”
Boris Johnson, Department of Health Press Release
-
30 SEPTEMBER 2020
“We have had a prudent, sensible, one nation Conservative party in power over the past 10 years.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
22 SEPTEMBER 2020
“Testing and tracing has very little or nothing to do with the spread or the transmission of the disease. The spread and the transmission of the disease is caused by contact between human beings and all the things that we are trying to minimise.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
22 SEPTEMBER 2020
“There is nothing more frustrating for the vast majority who do comply – the law-abiding majority – than the sight of a few brazenly defying the rules”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
15 SEPTEMBER 2020
“If there was a party taking place it would be right to call the police”
Priti Patel, Sky News
-
14 SEPTEMBER 2020
“I don’t believe they are.”
Boris Johnson, Meeting of the House of Commons Liaison Committee
-
2 SEPTEMBER 2020
“A scheme that is far more generous, by the way, than anything provided in France, Germany or Ireland.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
2 SEPTEMBER 2020
“[The] 0.7 percent is a manifesto commitment that is written in law… The Prime Minister has been clear he wants aid to be at the beating heart of our foreign policy.”
Dominic Raab, Foreign Office meeting
-
1 SEPTEMBER 2020
“People are going back to the office in huge numbers across our country — and quite right, too”
Boris Johnson, Speech to his Cabinet
-
26 AUGUST 2020
“I will write back to every letter we get, and of course I will meet anybody, the people who are bereaved, who have suffered from Covid. Of course I will do that.”
Boris Johnson, Sky News
-
14 AUGUST 2020
“There will be no border down the Irish Sea – over my dead body”
Boris Johnson, visit to Northern Ireland
-
30 JULY 2020
“Clearly this country has had a massive success now in reducing the numbers of those tragic deaths. We’ve got it at the moment under some measure of control. The numbers of deaths are well, well down.”
Boris Johnson, visit to North Yorkshire
-
22 JULY 2020
“The report didn’t find any evidence of interference in the EU referendum”
Grant Shapps, BBC Breakfast
-
1 JULY 2020
“The government first took notice and acted on what was going on in Leicester on 8 June, because we could see that there was an issue there. We sent mobile testing units—four more mobile testing units—shortly thereafter”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
17 JUNE 2020
“He’s completely wrong in what he says about poverty. Absolute poverty, relative poverty have both declined under this government and there are hundreds of thousands, I think 400,000 fewer families living in poverty now than there were in 2010.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
16 JUNE 2020
“I talked to Marcus Rashford today and congratulated him on his campaign which, to be honest, I only became aware of very recently, today.”
Boris Johnson, Coronavirus Press Briefing
-
16 JUNE 2020
“I can assure the hon. Lady that there has been massive consultation over a long period.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
14 JUNE 2020
“We remain committed to uncovering the causes of this tragedy, and ensuring it is never repeated.”
Downing Street, Twitter
-
7 JUNE 2020
“I’m sure” in response to “You are sure locking down when you did and not earlier did not cost lives?”
Matt Hancock, Andrew Marr Show
-
3 JUNE 2020
“…our test, track and trace system—which, contrary to what he said, was up and running on 1 June as I said it would be”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
31 MAY 2020
“The Home Secretary’s family came over at the time of Idi Amin expelling the Indians from Uganda”
Dominic Raab, Andrew Marr Show
-
25 MAY 2020
“the only reason I am able to announce that we are finally able to begin getting schools back, to begin getting retail back from the June 1, is because this country has observed the social distancing rules.”
Boris Johnson, Daily coronavirus press briefing
-
25 MAY 2020
“I’m finding that I have to wear spectacles for the first time in years – because I think of the likely effects of this thing … I think that’s very, very plausible that eyesight can be a problem associated with coronavirus”
Boris Johnson, Coronavirus Press Briefing
-
25 MAY 2020
“Last year I wrote about the possible threat of coronaviruses and the urgent need for planning.”
Dominic Cummings, Press Conference
-
25 MAY 2020
“I believe that in all circumstances I behaved reasonably and legally”
Dominic Cummings, Press Conference
-
23 MAY 2020
“If you want to meet someone from outside your household, it’s got to be you and that other person, just as a pair”
Boris Johnson, Coronavirus Press Briefing
-
20 MAY 2020
“You can meet one person outside of your household in an outdoor, public place, provided you stay 2m apart.”
Oliver Dowden, Coronavirus Press Briefing
-
20 MAY 2020
“This is a great national service—it is a national institution—that needs funding, and those contributions help us to raise about £900 million.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
20 MAY 2020
“The reality is that already 125,000 care home staff have been tested, 118,000—perhaps he didn’t know that Mr Speaker—118,000 care home workers have been tested and we are absolutely confident that we will be able to increase our testing, not just in…”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons [Hansard]
-
20 MAY 2020
“We have growing confidence that we will have a test, track and test operation that will be world-beating and yes it will be in place by June 1”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
20 MAY 2020
“Testing has been available to care homes right from the very beginning”
Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Press Briefing [25:20]
-
19 MAY 2020
“I recognise that there have only been a handful of days when more than 100,000 people have gone for that test”
Therese Coffey, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, BBC Breakfast
-
15 MAY 2020
“Right from the start we’ve tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes.”
Matt Hancock, Coronavirus Press Briefing
-
15 MAY 2020
“We put up nurses’ pay last month, and in fact last year we had the fastest rise, the biggest rise in pay—especially for nurses when they are starting their career and the lowest paid nurses, who got a pay rise, very significant, of over 15%.”
-
13 MAY 2020
“…we had a system of testing people going into care homes.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
13 MAY 2020
“I can tell the House that the number of discharges from hospitals into care homes actually went down in March and April”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
13 MAY 2020
“We brought in the lockdown in care homes ahead of the general lockdown.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
11 MAY 2020
“We are going to insist that businesses across this country look after their workers and are Covid-secure and Covid-compliant. The Health and Safety Executive will be enforcing that, and we will have spot inspections…”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
5 MAY 2020
“I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman was right last week when he paid tribute to the amazing work of the NHS, the logistics team and everybody involved in getting up from 2,000 tests a day in March to 120,000 by the end of April.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
2 MAY 2020
“On 30 April there were 122,347 #coronavirus tests, exceeding our target of 100,000 tests per day.”
Boris Johnson, Twitter
-
1 MAY 2020
“I can announce that we have met our goal. The number of tests yesterday, on the last day of April was 122,347.”
Matt Hancock, Coronavirus Press Briefing
-
27 APRIL 2020
“I know that there will be many people looking now at our apparent success”
Boris Johnson, Downing Street Statement
-
22 APRIL 2020
“And we have been deliberate in our actions so that we take the right steps at the right time.”
Dominic Raab, Press Briefing
-
20 APRIL 2020
“Rest assured that we’re doing absolutely everything we can and straining everything we can to get them the equipment that they need”
Rishi Sunak, Press Briefing
-
18 APRIL 2020
“Today I can report that a very large consignment of PPE is due to arrive in the UK tomorrow from Turkey, which amounts to 84 tonnes of PPE and will include for example, 400,000 gowns – so a very significant additional shipment.”
Robert Jenrick, Press Briefing
-
17 APRIL 2020
“At each point we have been following scientific and medical advice and we have been deliberate in our actions – taking the right steps at the right time.”
Alok Sharma, Press Briefing
-
6 APRIL 2020
“Any information the PM needs to be updated on or decisions that need to be taken by the Prime Minister will continue to happen. He’s still getting his box”
-
5 APRIL 2020
“It’s all rubbish” to suggest herd immunity was ever part of government strategy
Matt Hancock, Andrew Marr Show
-
1 APRIL 2020
“I want to say a special word about testing because it is so important, and as I’ve said for weeks and weeks, this is the way through.”
Boris Johnson, Twitter
-
31 MARCH 2020
“One of the constraints on our capacity to increase testing overall is supply of the specific reagents, the specific chemicals, that are needed in order to make sure that tests are reliable.”
Michael Gove, Coronavirus Press Briefing
-
29 MARCH 2020
“Good news that we’ve reached 10,000 coronavirus tests a day – ahead of schedule.”
Matt Hancock, Twitter
-
26 MARCH 2020
“Owing to an initial communication problem, the UK did not receive an invitation in time to join in four joint procurements in response to the coronavirus pandemic.”
Government spokesperson, Statement
-
16 MARCH 2020
“At all times we will be led by the science to bring forward the right responses at the right time to this global pandemic.”
-
16 MARCH 2020
“The UK, I think I’m right in saying, other than China and Italy, is carrying out more tests than any other country in the world…”
Grant Shapps, BBC Radio 4
-
14 MARCH 2020
“We have a plan, based on the expertise of world-leading scientists. Herd immunity is not a part of it.”
Matt Hancock, Daily Telegraph [Gov]
-
4 MARCH 2020
“There will be free hospital car parking for everybody who attends a hospital.”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
3 MARCH 2020
“From the repeal of the Corn Laws to the founding of GATT – the UK has always been a champion of free trade.”
Liz Truss, Twitter
-
26 FEBRUARY 2020
“We organise this gathering not only to recognise the importance of journalism & to emphasise our support for media freedom but also to help strengthen the relationships between us. We value our friendships across the region”
James Cleverly, UK-Arab commentators forum
-
25 FEBRUARY 2020
“In 2020, and beyond, the UK will place the promotion and protection of human rights at the top of our list of international priorities.”
Lord Ahmad, FCO address to UN Human Rights Council
-
25 FEBRUARY 2020
“Every day the UK is working to protect and promote human rights.”
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Twitter
-
19 FEBRUARY 2020
“We have over 8.45 million people in the UK aged between 16 and 64 who are economically inactive … We want businesses to invest in them, invest in skilling them up.”
Priti Patel, BBC Breakfast
-
14 FEBRUARY 2020
“How many hospitals are we going to build? 40. How many more police officers are we recruiting? 20,000. That’s right, how many nurses, more nurses, are we recruiting? 50,000 exactly right.”
-
11 FEBRUARY 2020
“We make no apology for trying to protect the public from serious, violent and persistent foreign national offenders.”
-
10 FEBRUARY 2020
“You have to accept we will need some friction. We will minimise it but it is an inevitability of our departure”
Michael Gove, Cabinet Office Event
-
10 FEBRUARY 2020
“I think it’s worth pointing out, the EU is pretty much the only place in the world that doesn’t use free ports”
Rishi Sunak, Sky News
-
3 FEBRUARY 2020
“The Government intends to invite contributions about the economic implications of the future relationship from a wide range of stakeholders via a public consultation. That process will begin in the spring.”
-
3 FEBRUARY 2020
“Our world-class NHS is well prepared and we are doing everything we can to protect the public.”
Matt Hancock, UK Government Press Release
-
30 JANUARY 2020
Number of rough sleepers “lower than at any time in the last eight years”
Boris Johnson, People’s PMQs
-
29 JANUARY 2020
“The SNP has not had a debate in its Parliament on education for two years.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
29 JANUARY 2020
“The economy, under this Conservative Government, has grown by 73 per cent.”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
-
15 JANUARY 2020
“There is no threat to the Erasmus scheme, and we will continue to participate in it. UK students will continue to be able to enjoy the benefits of exchanges with our European friends and partners”
Boris Johnson, House of Commons
-
9 DECEMBER 2019
“Let’s get Brexit done and take back control of our fishing waters”
Boris Johnson, speaking to fishermen in Grimsby
-
9 DECEMBER 2019
Matt Hancock aide “whacked” by Labour activist say “senior Tories”
Conservative press briefing
-
8 DECEMBER 2019
“there’s no question of there being checks on goods going from NI to GB or GB to NI”
Boris Johnson, Sophy Ridge on Sunday
-
8 DECEMBER 2019
“There was a (baby boom) after the Olympics, as I prophesied in a speech in 2012. It was quite amazing. There was a big baby boom”
Boris Johnson, interview with The Sunday Times
-
6 DECEMBER 2019
“I’m not aware of any adverts that we publish that have been misleading”
Michael Gove, ITV News
-
6 DECEMBER 2019
“There will be no checks on goods going from GB to NI and NI to GB because we are going to come out of the EU whole and entire. That was the objective we secured”
Boris Johnson, press conference in Kent
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5 DECEMBER 2019
“Homelessness reached its peak in 2008 under the last Labour government. Since then it’s down by almost a half”
Sajid Javid, Sky News
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1 DECEMBER 2019
“There are 400,000 fewer children in poverty than there were in 2010.”
Boris Johnson, BBC Andrew Marr Show
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1 DECEMBER 2019
“We’re upgrading 20 hospitals and building 40 new ones. And you are going to say, oh, well, it’s only six. Actually, that’s not true.”
Boris Johnson, The Andrew Marr Show
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1 DECEMBER 2019
“I’m perfectly happy to be interviewed by any interviewer called Andrew from the BBC”
Boris Johnson interview, The Andrew Marr Show
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1 DECEMBER 2019
“One of the reasons we’re having this election is because we have a Queen’s speech that was blocked by parliament”
Boris Johnson interview, The Andrew Marr Show
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29 NOVEMBER 2019
“Read my lips, we will not be raising taxes on income, on VAT or National Insurance”
Boris Johnson, LBC
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29 NOVEMBER 2019
“The NHS, as you know, it’s the biggest increase in living memory, a £34bn increase”
Boris Johnson interview, Nick Ferrari on LBC
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29 NOVEMBER 2019
“40 new hospitals will be built as a result of decisions we’re taking”
Boris Johnson interview, Nick Ferrari on LBC
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28 NOVEMBER 2019
“Absolutely not. I’ve never tried to deceive the public and I’ve always tried to be absolutely frank”
Boris Johnson to ITV News
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27 NOVEMBER 2019
“The Prime Minister has been very clear, you know. We’re not going to have anything. We’re going to make sure that there’s unfettered access into the UK market”
Julian Smith, Conservative Northern Ireland manifesto launch
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26 NOVEMBER 2019
“If anybody is convicted, if anybody is done for Islamophobia, or any other prejudice or discrimination in the Conservative Party they are out first bounce”
Boris Johnson, to television cameras
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26 NOVEMBER 2019
“No-one has ever credibly suggested that (Islamophobia is) an issue with the leadership of the party, whether that’s the leader of the party of the day or the chancellor or other senior figures”
Sajid Javid, campaign event in Bolton
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26 NOVEMBER 2019
Nicola Sturgeon “confirmed last night to Andrew Neil” that SNP policy was “to rejoin the EU, to join the Euro”
Boris Johnson, launch of the Scottish Conservative party manifesto
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24 NOVEMBER 2019
“We will certainly make sure that the A&E in Telford is kept open”
Boris Johnson, Conservative Party manifesto launch
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24 NOVEMBER 2019
“We will be investing, as I say, the biggest ever cash boost to the NHS”
Boris Johnson, Conservative Party manifesto launch
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21 NOVEMBER 2019
The Conservatives will host “the UK government’s first ever international LGBT conference.”
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22 NOVEMBER 2019
“this new One Nation Conservative Government is giving the NHS its biggest ever cash boost, with 20 hospital upgrades and 40 new hospitals”
Boris Johnson, Conservative Party Manifesto
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22 NOVEMBER 2019
“We will not raise the rate of income tax, VAT or National Insurance.”
Boris Johnson, Conservative Party Manifesto
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22 NOVEMBER 2019
“Extra funding for the NHS, with 50,000 more nurses”
Boris Johnson, Conservative Party Manifesto
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22 NOVEMBER 2019
“I see no reason to interfere with the normal timetable for these things”
Boris Johnson, Question Time
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21 NOVEMBER 2019
“Labour’s Jess Phillips undermines Corbyn’s manifesto by admitting they can’t or won’t deliver on their promises”
Conservative Party Twitter account
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21 NOVEMBER 2019
“No-one gives a toss about the social media cut and thrust”
Dominic Raab, BBC Breakfast
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20 NOVEMBER 2019
“If we’re lucky enough to be elected, so the first budget we will go up to the £9,500 threshold and that will, as I say, put £500 into the pockets of everyone”
Boris Johnson, campaign stop in North Yorkshire
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20 NOVEMBER 2019
“There is absolutely no evidence that I’ve ever seen of any Russian interference in UK democratic processes”
Boris Johnson, campaign stop in Teeside
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19 NOVEMBER 2019
“The figure that we’re spending is £34 billion – it’s the biggest increase in modern memory in the NHS.”
Boris Johnson, BBC Breakfast
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19 NOVEMBER 2019
“We’re putting record sums in [to the NHS] — £34bn”
Boris Johnson, Leadership debate, ITV
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19 NOVEMBER 2019
“We’re not just upgrading 20 hospitals but we are building 40 new hospitals”
Boris Johnson, Leadership debate, ITV
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19 NOVEMBER 2019
“Not at all. Northern Ireland is part of the customs territory of the UK”
Boris Johnson, Leadership debate, ITV
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19 NOVEMBER 2019
Jeremy Corbyn “would whack corporation tax up to the highest in Europe”
Boris Johnson, Leadership debate, ITV
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19 NOVEMBER 2019
“I think it does”
Boris Johnson, Leadership debate, ITV
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19 NOVEMBER 2019
“factcheckUK”
Conservative Party press office, Twitter account
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19 NOVEMBER 2019
The UK’s corporation tax is “already the lowest in Europe”
Boris Johnson, Leadership debate, ITV
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18 NOVEMBER 2019
“Jeremy Corbyn would whack up corporation tax to the highest levels in Europe”
Boris Johnson, speech to the Confederation of British Business conference 2019
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17 NOVEMBER 2019
“It’s unfair that people coming from European countries can access free NHS care without paying in, while others make significant contributions”
Michael Gove, quoted in The Mail on Sunday
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16 NOVEMBER 2019
“Inside the EU we’re trapped in the Common Agricultural Policy. It’s one of the big benefits of leaving the EU, and it will allow us to meet these tree-planting targets which will ensure that we deal with the climate crisis that we face”
Michael Gove, Today programme
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15 NOVEMBER 2019
“I see absolutely no reason to change the normal procedures for publishing reports just because there’s an election coming”
Boris Johnson, BBC Radio 5 Live
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15 NOVEMBER 2019
Jeremy Corbyn “thinks home ownership is a bad idea and is opposed to it”
Boris Johnson in a speech in Oldham, live on Sky News
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15 NOVEMBER 2019
“20,000 more police are operating on our streets to fight crime and bring crime down”
Boris Johnson in a speech in Oldham, live on Sky News
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15 NOVEMBER 2019
Jeremy Corbyn “plans to wreck the economy with a £1.2 trillion spending plan”
Boris Johnson in a speech in Oldham, live on Sky News
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15 NOVEMBER 2019
Labour “want to have two referendums next year, one in Scotland”
Boris Johnson speech in Oldham, live on Sky News
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15 NOVEMBER 2019
“We are getting on with a fantastic programme … 20 hospital upgrades, 40 new hospitals”
Boris Johnson in a speech in Oldham, live on Sky News
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15 NOVEMBER 2019
“Jeremy Corbyn … wouldn’t even stick up for this country when it came to the poisonings in Salisbury and actually seemed to side in that instance with Russia”
Boris Johnson in a speech in Oldham, live on Sky News
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14 NOVEMBER 2019
“Corbyn and his lot … actually think that the armed services should be disbanded — that’s what he said”
Boris Johnson in a speech to supporters in Oldham
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14 NOVEMBER 2019
“Under Jeremy Corbyn’s plan for unlimited and uncontrolled immigration, (net migration) could increase to over 840,000 people — more than the population of Liverpool — coming to the UK every year”
Conservative Research Department report
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12 NOVEMBER 2019
“The nature of these reports is that they do contain sensitive information, which is why they need to go through an appropriate period of vetting to make sure that they are safe to then be released. That’s what’s happened here.”
Rishi Sunak, Good Morning Britain
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12 NOVEMBER 2019
“Boris Johnson warns voters that Britain faces ‘political onanism’ of Brexit under Jeremy Corbyn”
The Sun
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10 NOVEMBER 2019
“The true ‘Cost of Corbyn’ is a staggering £1.2 trillion”
Sajid Javid, public statement
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8 NOVEMBER 2019
“I’ve had to give [drinking] up until we get Brexit done”
Boris Johnson, visit to hospital in Nottinghamshire
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7 NOVEMBER 2019
“If somebody asks you to [fill in a form], tell them to ring up the prime minister, and I will direct them to throw that form in the bin”
Boris Johnson, to manufacturers in Northern Ireland
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6 NOVEMBER 2019
Jeremy Corbyn “sided with Putin” over the Salisbury novichok attack
Boris Johnson at a Downing Street speech
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6 NOVEMBER 2019
“Our MPs are just refusing time and again to deliver Brexit”
Boris Johnson, speech launching Conservative Party election campaign, Downing Street
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6 NOVEMBER 2019
“If we can get this deal over the line . . . then we can release that pent-up flood of investment. Hundreds of billions are waiting to pour into the UK”
Boris Johnson, speech launching Conservative Party election campaign, Downing Street
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6 NOVEMBER 2019
“We can leave the EU as one UK, whole and entire and perfect as promised”
Boris Johnson, speech launching Conservative Party election campaign, Downing Street
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6 NOVEMBER 2019
“We have got a deal, oven-ready, by which we can leave the EU in a few weeks. It’s a great deal for this country. It delivers everything that I wanted when I campaigned for Brexit”
Boris Johnson, speech launching Conservative Party election campaign, Downing Street
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6 NOVEMBER 2019
“They [the Labour Party] point their fingers at individuals with a relish and a vindictiveness not seen since Stalin persecuted the kulaks”
Boris Johnson, launching Conservative Party election campaign in The Daily Telegraph
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5 NOVEMBER 2019
“This is no different from the standard procedure, as I understand it, that occurs with these select committee reports”
Michael Gove, BBC Breakfast
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5 NOVEMBER 2019
“It’s going through appropriate procedures, I think it’s been lodged with No. 10 and it will be published in due course.”
Michael Gove, Today Programme
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5 NOVEMBER 2019
“We have taken swift action to deal with any Conservative Party member who has been accused of engaging in Islamophobic language or actions. We’ve made sure those people are suspended and there is an investigation”
Michael Gove, Today Programme
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5 NOVEMBER 2019
“Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit minister can’t or won’t answer a simple question about Labour’s position on Brexit”
Conservative Party Twitter account
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3 NOVEMBER 2019
“Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey reveals more than 10 million people can look forward to an income boost, as working-age benefits will rise by the rate of inflation in April”
Department for Work and Pensions, Twitter
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3 NOVEMBER 2019
“Parliament refused finally to give approval for us to come out on October 31 which was a great disappointment”
Boris Johnson, Ridge on Sunday
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30 OCTOBER 2019
“I might ask the honourable Lady how she can justify this country spending another £1 billion per month on delaying our exit from the European Union”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
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28 OCTOBER 2019
“They made it inevitable that the people of this country would be retained in the EU against their will for at least another three months, at a cost of another £1 billion a month”
Boris Johnson, to the House of Commons
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23 OCTOBER 2019
“They said that we would never get it through parliament, and they did their utmost to stop it going through parliament, but we got it through parliament last night”
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister’s Questions
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22 OCTOBER 2019
“There will be no checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland”
Boris Johnson, speaking in Parliament
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22 OCTOBER 2019
“A vote against the programme motion is a vote against Brexit”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Twitter
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20 OCTOBER 2019
Sir Oliver Letwin was telephoning Lord Pannick about his Brexit amendment while visiting the prime minister
“Senior Tories”
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19 OCTOBER 2019
The Prime Minister’s letter to the EU asking for an extension is a “photocopy”
Various British media organisations
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2 OCTOBER 2019
“I want to get a deal with Canada but we’re now in the Canadian elections. They’re in a purdah period so we cannot continue those discussions”
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, BBC Politics Live
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2 OCTOBER 2019
“Remember it was only a few years ago when people were saying that solar power would never work in cloudy old Britain and that wind turbines would not pull the skin off a rice pudding”
Boris Johnson, Tory conference speech
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2 OCTOBER 2019
“When did you last hear a Tory leader talk about capitalism?”
Boris Johnson, Tory conference speech
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2 OCTOBER 2019
“Those who talk about not wanting a no deal Brexit are being deliberately deceitful. It is Brexit full stop they wish to block”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Twitter
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2 OCTOBER 2019
“It was this Conservative government that tackled the debt and the deficit left by the last Labour government”
Boris Johnson, Tory conference speech
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1 OCTOBER 2019
“I didn’t actually say collaborators — go back over the quotation”
Boris Johnson, Radio 4’s Today
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1 OCTOBER 2019
“It’s obviously very sad that someone should make such allegations — they are not true”
Boris Johnson, BBC Breakfast, on Charlotte Edwardes’s allegations
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1 OCTOBER 2019
“I think that it would be a mistake to keep the UK bound in beyond the time that the people want to come out… at a cost of £1 billion a month”
Boris Johnson, Today programme
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1 OCTOBER 2019
“I’m delighted that Canterbury, for instance, is going to be one of the 40 new hospitals we are building”
Boris Johnson, Tory conference fringe event
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1 OCTOBER 2019
“I’ve always been a big champion of women at the top of every organisation that I run. If you look at the way I ran City Hall was virtually half and half, it was a complete feminocracy at City Hall. The same goes for what I did in the Foreign Office”
Boris Johnson, Today programme
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30 SEPTEMBER 2019
“When I was running London we drove up ridership on buses massively by improving the service and having automatic contactless payment — Oyster cards”
Boris Johnson, to television cameras, warehouse in Manchester
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29 SEPTEMBER 2019
No. 10 is probing Remain MPs’ “foreign collusion”
“Downing Street sources”
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29 SEPTEMBER 2019
“The Conservative Party is the oldest, greatest political party in the world. It’s a big broad church and we don’t do deals with other parties”
Boris Johnson, Andrew Marr Show
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28 SEPTEMBER 2019
“You will have seen that on the steps of Downing Street I announced 20 new hospital upgrades. We’re now following that up with 40 new hospitals”
Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph
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25 SEPTEMBER 2019
“One of the reasons I wanted to have a Queen’s Speech was so that we could bring back the domestic violence Bill”
Boris Johnson, Parliament
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25 SEPTEMBER 2019
“On the language he ascribes to me, I do not think I have used those words. I would be happy if he clarified that point”
Boris Johnson, Parliament
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25 SEPTEMBER 2019
“Johnson still believes he can lawfully render the Benn Act null and void”
“Senior government source”, to Robert Peston
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24 SEPTEMBER 2019
“What we will certainly do is ensure that Parliament has plenty of time to debate Brexit”
Boris Johnson, BBC interview
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24 SEPTEMBER 2019
“Amber Rudd was given every opportunity to see the legal advice but chose to resign without doing so. It is utterly dishonest to suggest it was in anyway withheld”
Unnamed government source, to Tim Shipman, political editor of The Sunday Times
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23 SEPTEMBER 2019
“Everything was done with complete propriety and in the normal way”
Boris Johnson, Sky News interview, New York
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23 SEPTEMBER 2019
“If you try to sell British socks in North America they currently attract a 19 per cent tariff and the Americans insist before they allow them to be sold on the US market they must try to set fire to them twice”
Boris Johnson to reporters en route to UN General Assembly
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23 SEPTEMBER 2019
“When we leave the EU we can ban the sale of shark fin soup”
Boris Johnson, Channel 4 News interview
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19 SEPTEMBER 2019
“I don’t comment on conversations with the Queen”
Boris Johnson to reporters
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18 SEPTEMBER 2019
“There’s no press here”
Boris Johnson, during a visit to Whipps Cross hospital
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16 SEPTEMBER 2019
“The prorogation that is involved with this Queen’s speech only loses us four days. Four days of parliamentary sitting time”
Boris Johnson, Twitter video
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13 SEPTEMBER 2019
“I didn’t say” police money was being “spaffed up the wall” on historic child sex abuse investigations
Boris Johnson, press conference, Convention of the North
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13 SEPTEMBER 2019
“We’ve got a huge new Towns Fund which is going to be giving £3.6 billion altogether”
Boris Johnson, press conference, Convention of the North
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12 SEPTEMBER 2019
As mayor of London my initiative on homelessness was “successful”
Boris Johnson, People’s PMQs
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12 SEPTEMBER 2019
“The High Court in England plainly agrees with us”
Boris Johnson, to television cameras, Thames ship visit
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5 SEPTEMBER 2019
Any involvement of police officers will be “solely about police officer recruitment”
Prime Minister’s team, visit to West Yorkshire Police
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5 SEPTEMBER 2019
I would rather be “dead in a ditch” than delay Brexit
Boris Johnson, speech on West Yorkshire Police visit
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2 SEPTEMBER 2019
“£14 billion pound cash boost for schools”
Conservative Party Facebook advert linking to BBC article
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2 SEPTEMBER 2019
There are “no circumstances” in which the prime minister will ask Brussels to delay Brexit beyond Halloween
“Senior government source”, to The Independent
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1 SEPTEMBER 2019
There are “only four days parliament might have been sitting when it won’t be sitting”
Michael Gove on prorogation
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30 AUGUST 2019
“We are in the last stages” of negotiating a deal
Boris Johnson, government Twitter video
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28 AUGUST 2019
“To deliver on the public’s priorities we require a new session and a Queen’s Speech”
Boris Johnson announces the proroguing of parliament
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28 AUGUST 2019
“The claim that the government is considering proroguing parliament in Sept in order to stop MPs debating Brexit is entirely false”
Downing Street source
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28 AUGUST 2019
“Only around four Commons sitting days will be lost” due to prorogation
Downing Street source
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28 AUGUST 2019
Prorogation is “certainly not” an attempt to stop MPs blocking no deal
Michael Gove, BBC interview
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25 AUGUST 2019
“Melton Mowbray pork pies, which are sold in Thailand and in Iceland, are currently unable to enter the US market because of, I don’t know, some sort of food and drug administration restriction”
Boris Johnson, BBC interview after a breakfast meeting with US President Donald Trump
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25 AUGUST 2019
The EU would be “entirely” to blame for a no-deal Brexit
Boris Johnson, G7 summit
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18 AUGUST 2019
“Yellowhammer is a worst-case scenario”
Michael Gove, Twitter and on television
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18 AUGUST 2019
The leaked Operation Yellowhammer document was an “old document”
Michael Gove to television cameras
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18 AUGUST 2019
The Operation Yellowhammer document was “deliberately leaked by a former minister in an attempt to influence discussions with EU leaders”
Number 10 briefing to journalists
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11 AUGUST 2019
“Nothing can stop us now”
“No 10 aides”, to the Sun on Sunday
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8 AUGUST 2019
“They tell me that they are literally only a few years away from being able to provide UK made fusion reactors for sale around the world”
Boris Johnson, live video on Facebook
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8 AUGUST 2019
There is “nothing” MPs can do to stop a no-deal Brexit on October 31
Dominic Cummings, to The Daily Telegraph
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5 AUGUST 2019
“I want to stress, this is new money. This is new money”
Boris Johnson, announcing £1.8 billion for the NHS
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2 AUGUST 2019
“I have never said I’m an active supporter”
Priti Patel on capital punishment, Daily Mail interview
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29 JULY 2019
“We made clear” during the Brexit campaign that a no-deal Brexit was a possibility
Dominic Raab, Today programme
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27 JULY 2019
“And today I am going to deliver on my commitment to that vision with a pledge to fund the Leeds to Manchester route.”
Boris Johnson, Pledge
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25 JULY 2019
“The way we reduced knife crime in London was by a very active policy of stop and search”
Boris Johnson to Parliament, first statement to the commons as prime minister
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25 JULY 2019
“We kept the murder rate in London at fewer than 100 for more than four or five years running”
Boris Johnson to Parliament, first statement to the commons as prime minister
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24 JULY 2019
“We will fix the crisis in social care once and for all – with a clear plan we have prepared.”
Boris Johnson, First Speech as PM
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17 JULY 2019
“He has had his costs massively increased by Brussels bureaucrats who have insisted that each kipper must be accompanied by this, a plastic ice pillow”
Boris Johnson, final leadership hustings, London
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26 JUNE 2019
Chances of a no-deal Brexit are “a million-to-one against”
Boris Johnson, leadership hustings in London
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25 JUNE 2019
“We are getting ready to come out on October the 31st … do or die, come what may”
Boris Johnson, TalkRadio interview
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24 JUNE 2019
There are “abundant technical fixes” for the Irish border
Boris Johnson, BBC interview
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12 JUNE 2019
“There may be bumps in the road” with no deal
Boris Johnson, speech launching Tory leadership campaign
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3 JUNE 2019
“It is an extraordinary fact that this country is forecast in our lifetimes to become the largest and most prosperous economy in this hemisphere”
Boris Johnson, The Daily Telegraph
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15 APRIL 2019
“As for the so-called association with Steve Bannon, I am afraid this is a lefty delusion whose spores continue to breed in the Twittersphere”
Boris Johnson, The Daily Telegraph
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27 MARCH 2019
“Resorting to bullying and intimidation is not the type of leadership or behaviour anyone should sanction or endorse.”
Priti Patel, Twitter
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17 JANUARY 2019
“I didn’t make any remarks about Turkey, mate”
Boris Johnson, press conference at JCB headquarters
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6 JANUARY 2019
“Of all the options suggested by pollsters — staying in the EU, coming out on Theresa May’ terms, or coming out on World Trade terms — it is the last, the so-called no deal option, that is… by some margin preferred by the British public”
Boris Johnson The Daily Telegraph
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22 NOVEMBER 2018
“Terrific figures out today show GP numbers rose by over a thousand from June-Sept this year”
Matt Hancock, Twitter
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9 JULY 2018
“EU regulations stop us lowering lorry windows to help cyclists”
Boris Johnson, letter of resignation as foreign secretary
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6 APRIL 2016
“The day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want”
Michael Gove, speech at Vote Leave HQ
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25 JANUARY 2016
Brexit will leave the Irish border “absolutely unchanged”
Boris Johnson, BBC interview
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8 OCTOBER 2015
“We send the EU £350m a week”
Vote Leave slogan, launch video
Peter Oborne
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