David Willetts says that is the contract between the generations is broken.
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Telegraph on 10th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Whenever something happens to Boris Johnson, people say to me with a merry smile, "You'll have to do a new chapter of your book."As it happens, I've just written a new chapter of my life of Johnson ("Boris - the Rise of Boris Johnson", Pocket Books, £7.99), serialised in the Telegraph and now available from quite a number of good bookshops.But I have no intention of writing another new chapter eac...
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AndrewGimson on 14th Jul 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Responding to Boris Johnson's refusal to attend the FEM11 conference on Saturday 12th November, Yvette Cooper MP said: "Boris Johnson clearly doesn't want to debate his opponents. Boris Johnson's campaign has snubbed women at a time when the Conservative party is more and more out of step with women in this country. "Boris Johnson should be prepared to debate why he cut childcare su...
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LabourMatters on 12th Nov 2011 (via labourmatters.com)
Following Boris Johnson's attack on Londoners in The Sun this morning, Ken Livingstone said; "Tory Boris Johnson is calling Londoners workshy and lazy when in fact they're the hardest working people in the world. He's completely out of touch with reality. "Boris Johnson has two jobs, earning him £400,000 a year combined, so it is little wonder that he is so out of touch about ...
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LabourMatters on 20th Jan 2012 (via labourmatters.com)
I think that Boris Johnson just enhanced his reputation. The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has fallen into a river while launching a drive to urge Londoners to volunteer. While helping to clear up the River Pool in Lewisham, south-east London, he tripped and fell in, getting wet up to around his chest, then stumbled away. Mr Johnson was helped to his feet by volunteers who he was helping remove li...
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TheWardmanWire on 4th Jun 2009 (via mattwardman.com)
Schoolboy rivalries never quite go away - just look at the ongoing competition between Boris Johnson and David Cameron. Even though it was Cameron who held up Johnson’s arm in a symbolic victory gesture after Boris became Mayor of London in 2008, you wonder if Cameron had his doubts. After all, Cameron never actually approached Johnson about the post, initially choosing Nicholas Boles as the...
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Spectator on 7th Jul 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
Boris Johnson was in Greenwich on Friday, hiding his failings over affordable housing by taking credit for schemes he is not responsible for. This was covered in the Evening Standard, in the article “Boris Johnson under attack over ’20,000 new homes’ claim”: , and the story has been picked up by Tory Troll. Boris Johnson
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SocialistUnity on 17th Jan 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
We'd like to take this opportunity to apologise for publishing a grave and malicious falsehood. Readers of yesterday's post may have been under the impression that Boris Johnson hadn't done anything in his first 100 days as London Mayor. But we have been asked to point out that not only did Boris make the brave and difficult
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RecessMonkey on 4th Aug 2008 (via recessmonkey.com)