Of course I'm going to go for it. by Boris Johnson

Of course I'm going to go for it.

Boris Johnson

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I've had very good discussions with my French, German and Dutch counterparts, many other counterparts here, explaining to them that this is the way we get that deep and special partnership with Europe.

It's really kind of irrelevant to what we're trying to do, and it certainly doesn't express the opinion of the British people that I've met.

Brexit should be about opportunity and hope, that dream is dying,... by Boris Johnson

Brexit should be about opportunity and hope, that dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt.

We are truly headed for the status of a colony - and many will struggle to see the economic or political advantage of that particular arrangement.

Imagine President Trump doing Brexit, president Trump ’d go in bloody hard … There ’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think President Trump ’d gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought.

Project Fear is really working on them. They’re terrified of this nonsense. It’s all mumbo jumbo.

Imagine Trump doing Brexit, he'd go in bloody hard ... There'd be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he'd gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It's a very, very good thought.

Imagine Donald Trump doing Brexit, i have become more and more convinced that there is method in Donald Trump madness.

What they don't want is friction at the border, they don't want any interruption of the economy. So they're sacrificing all the medium - and long-term gains out of fear of short term disruption, they're terrified of this nonsense. It's all total mumbo jumbo.

We will continue to tighten the squeeze on some of the oligarchs... by Boris Johnson

We will continue to tighten the squeeze on some of the oligarchs who surround Putin.

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You throw a stone in Kensington and you'll hit an oligarch, some of them are close to Putin and some of them aren't.

I want to stress that that does not mean we are in any sense not going to be working with the Americans.

It's totally untried and would make it very, very difficult to do free trade deals, if you have the new customs partnership, you have a crazy system whereby you end up collecting the tariffs on behalf of the EU at the UK frontier.

If they do get a nuclear weapon, you're going to get an arms race in the Middle East, you're going to have the Saudis wanting one, the Egyptians wanting one, the Emiratis. It's already a very, very dangerous state at the moment, we don't want to go down that road. There doesn't seem to me at the moment to be a viable military solution.

At this moment Britain is working alongside the Trump administration and our French and German allies to ensure that they are.

...At this moment Britain is working alongside the Trump administration and our French and German allies to ensure that they are, i am sure of one thing: every available alternative is worse. The wisest course would be to improve the handcuffs rather than break them.

On so many of the world's foreign policy challenges the UK and U.S. are in lockstep, the UK, U.S., and European partners are also united in our effort to tackle the kind of Iranian behavior that makes the Middle East region less secure - its cyber activities, its support for groups like Hezbollah, and its dangerous missile program, which is arming Houthi militias in Yemen.

One of the key things we're doing is looking again at ... how we strengthen our collective response to the kind of hybrid attacks that so many NATO allies are experiencing from Russia.

What we decided ... was that we were going to set up a G7 group that would look at Russian malign behavior in all its manifestations - whether it's cyber warfare, whether it's disinformation, assassination attempts, whatever it happens to be, and collectively try to call it out.

We accept that Iranian behavior has been disruptive in the region, we accept the president has some valid points that need to be addressed, but we believe they are capable of being addressed (inside the deal).