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I'm not going to pretend to be anything I'm not.
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Pretend
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Boris Johnson is nothing like Winston Churchill.
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Johnson
Churchill
Winston
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I think this country is genuinely a meritocracy.
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Genuinely
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The whole social media can destroy people overnight.
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Social Media People Media
Destroy
Overnight
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My family have a long story of service to our country.
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Long Story
Service
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Unlike his father, Churchill was not a natural speaker.
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Churchill
Unlike
Speaker
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To work for the good of our country is not a shallow thing.
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Shallow
Work Good Country
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I hope that 'Remain' will carry the day, just on the grounds of common sense.
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Common Sense
Hope Day Will
Grounds
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Winston Churchill was like Winston Churchill because of his experiences in life.
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Churchill
Winston
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To engage all sides of Parliament in a common national cause is not unpatriotic.
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Parliament
Sides
Unpatriotic
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To be dubbed by my sovereign is an absolutely wonderful honour for me and my family.
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Honour
Sovereign
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Churchill's career was littered with oratorical disasters when he misjudged the audience.
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Churchill
Disasters
Littered
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The comparison between Harry Cohen and my grandfather is not one that bears close examination.
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Bears
Comparison
Examination
Grandfather
Harry
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We must find a credible route through Brexit to build a better country and go forward together.
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Credible
Brexit
Route
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When you have a general election result you don't like, you don't have another general election.
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Election
General Election
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One hopes that good, sensible and brave people will continue to go into public life at all levels.
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Levels
Public Life
Sensible
Hopes
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It's not an idle boast that the British Army is, man for man, probably the best fighting force in the world.
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Army
Boast
British
Fighting
Force
Idle
Best Man World
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If you ask a soldier what is the key to this confidence, they will likely answer their discipline and their training.
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Discipline
Soldier
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Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.
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Borders
Dramatic
External
Rapidly
Strengthened
Survive
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I think to leave Europe would be a threat on the one hand to our economic security and on the other our national security.
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Economic Security
National Security
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As Churchill's grandson, I am in daily receipt of vile correspondence from people telling me that I am a traitor to his memory.
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Correspondence
Grandson
Traitor
Daily I Am Me
Churchill
Daily Me I Am
Daily
Memory
Vile
Telling
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When you are choosing an MP you need to choose the person who is pretty much likely to be the best representative for your area.
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Choose
Likely
Representative
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Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.
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Friends
Respect
Allies
Fortune
Old Friends
Security
Old
Depend
Neighbours
Proper
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The idea that the British carried out hundreds of war crimes in Iraq is, of course, utterly without foundation and grossly unfair.
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Carried
Crimes
Hundreds
Utterly
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Boris Johnson's experience in life is telling a lot of porkies about the European Union in Brussels and then becoming prime minister.
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Brussels
European Union
Johnson
Prime Minister
Minister
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As all Members of Parliament know, the ease and flow of making a speech outside the House is not at all the same as that required in the Chamber.
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Chamber
Ease
Flow
Members
Parliament
Outside
Required
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Game-keepers on grouse moors control common predators such as foxes and crows and this gives wading birds a much greater chance of breeding successfully.
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Breeding
Foxes
Birds
Crows
Predators
Successfully
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I'm very lucky in my constituency. I have very grown up sensible members who don't agree with me, but we never have a quarrel. I absolutely respect their views.
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Agree
Members
Sensible
Views
Absolutely
Grown
Quarrel
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I really should not need to spell this out, but one of the attributes of a successful sniper is that he makes no sound at all - nor, indeed, shouts out warnings!
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Attributes
Spell
Warnings
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I know, as a former serving officer, that our troops are extremely well disciplined and well led, and they take the correct treatment of prisoners very seriously.
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Former
Serving
Treatment
Troops
Correct
Disciplined
Extremely
Led
Officer
Prisoners
Seriously
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I accept that the Army must do what it thinks it needs to get people to join, but I think they ought to be extremely cautious about the message they send outside.
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Army
Cautious
Join
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I'm quite sure that, had Twitter been of an age when my grandfather was prime minister, I'm sure they would have used it. He was a brilliant and gifted communicator.
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Grandfather
Prime Minister
Minister
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The eurosceptics, many of whom are my friends and are highly intelligent people with strong views, they are entirely respectable in every way, I just don't agree with them.
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Intelligent
Respectable
Views
Entirely
Intelligent People
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I never thought I would hear Labour and Scottish Nationalist ministers in both Westminster and Holyrood publicly recognise the environmental benefits of good grouse moor management.
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Environmental
Labour
Management
Ministers
Recognise
Scottish
Westminster
Nationalist
Publicly
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I think one of the laughable things about poor old Brexit is that they're so cross - they're furious with everyone. But this isn't a cross country; this is a generous and optimistic country.
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Furious
Generous
Laughable
Brexit
Cross
Cross Country
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I'm not optimistic for my country. I don't see how we're ever going to project our influence and our standing and our power outside the E.U. Britain's voice is going to diminish, I'm afraid.
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Optimistic
Britain
Diminish
Influence
Standing
Voice
Afraid
Project
Outside
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I bridled strongly when Labour introduced their Right to Roam, fearing that it would be misused by the hard Left to stir up unnecessary trouble in the countryside. In fact, greater access to the uplands has been a very good thing.
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Countryside
Misused
Unnecessary
Fearing
Good Thing
Introduced
Roam
Stir
Strongly
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It is one thing to go into combat, but quite another to go in with the sapping knowledge that what you do in the next few chaotic minutes or hours in the name of your mates, your regiment, your country, might also see you dragged into court.
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Chaotic
Combat
Court
Mates
Minutes
Dragged
Regiment
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I am worried about the Tory party because give or take the odd spasm we have always been seen as pragmatic, sensible, good at our job, sane, reasonable and having the interests of the whole country. Now it is beginning to look like a Brexit sect.
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Odd
Reasonable
Sane
Sensible
Good Always I Am
Brexit
Good Look I Am
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It is often quite impossible to gauge the mood of the Chamber in advance, particularly on big occasions. One moment, it is relaxed and good-humoured; at the next, it can be angry and querulous, and the House in this mood can be a formidable arena.
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Arena
Chamber
Formidable
Mood
Occasions
Relaxed
Advance
Gauge
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As the world has grown bigger for our country, the opportunities greater, the chances more glittering for our commerce and our people, too many of those who practice politics have taken a cramped and limited view of Europe and the rest of the world.
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Commerce
Chances
Politics World View
Glittering
Our People
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I think Churchill would have thought it extraordinary that we would have thought ourselves so successful, so powerful, so well thought of in the world that we could afford to give up this extraordinary relationship we have in this great European Union.
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Relationship
European Union
Extraordinary
Powerful
Successful
Relationship Great World
Afford
Churchill
Union
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As millions of people know, one of the great pleasures of walking in areas of the uplands managed for grouse is to see and hear large numbers of curlew, lapwing and golden plover - all ground-nesting birds largely absent or in rapidly declining numbers elsewhere.
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Absent
Elsewhere
Golden
Large Numbers
Numbers
Declining
Millions Of People
Rapidly
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