10 and of course Chequers, and our fantastic prop force detectives, the one group, by the way, who never leak. And we Conservatives stand by those who have shared our values, thrift and hard work, and who face total destitution in this brutal lottery of old age, in which treatment for cancer is funded by the state and care for Alzheimers is not, or only partly. Boris Johnson: (33:06) So perhaps we should all thank each other. Good morning, everybody listening. The other day, I took a boat out into the Moray Firth to see this aquatic forest of white turbines towering over the water, like the Redwoods of California. The Prime Minister also praised the Kings "sense of duty and service" and said Britons "owe him our loyalty and devotion". Boris Johnson has delivered his first speech after his Conservative party won a landslide majority in the December 2019 general election, at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in central London . When I stood on the steps of Downing Street, I promised to fix this crisis. "The hampers came from the castle, and we all mucked in to put the food and drink out on the table. Behind those vaccines are companies and shareholders and yes, bankers. I say, dont give me that, this is the government that stood up to China and announced that we would provide a haven for British overseas nationals from Hong Kong. Industry-leading accurate legal transcription to ensure you dont miss a statement. And I mean, the spirit of the footballers who took England into the final of a major knockout tournament for the first time in the lives of the vast majority of the people of this country, and probably looking around at all you young thrusters, the majority of the people in this room. Even fewer. Delivered on: 23 March . Boris Johnson UK Conservative Party Conference 2021 Speech Transcript, Congressional Testimony & Hearing Transcripts. And it will be a good thing it will drive jobs and prosperity across the whole continent. In fact, it was only recently determined by the Daily Telegraph, if you cant believe that, what can you believe, my friends, to be the eighth richest village in England. And I mean the long term, structural weaknesses in the UK economy. "She very sweetly asked me how I was, being clearly sympathetic about what had happened. From: Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP. Good afternoon. They are the means of leveling up. Boris Johnson resigned from office, ending a nearly three-year premiership marred by controversy and scandal. Gene editing, data management, AI, cyber, quantum, and were going to be ever more global in our outlook. These vaccines have ensured that by a simple [inaudible 00:31:21] mutation, jabs, jabs, jabs become jobs, jobs, jobs. [inaudible 00:44:24]. Okay, right, right, here we go. The truck stops, to pick an example entirely at random, with basic facilities where you dont have to urinate in the bushes. Boris Johnson said it was the depth of the publics grief at Queen Elizabeth IIs passing that revealed how much she was loved, as MPs of all political stripes paid tribute to her life. And now were going to go further, not only jettisoning EU rules we dont need anymore, but using new freedoms to improve the way we regulate in the great growth areas of the 21st century, as we fulfill our ambition of becoming a science superpower. Backing our farmers and backing British food and agricultural production. Speech-to-Text live streaming for live captions, powered by the worlds leading speech recognition API. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds arrive at 10 Downing Street on the morning after the general election in London, Britain, December 13, 2019 [Thomas Mukoya . God save the King. You see how rich this country is growing, the billions of loving and incremental improvements to homes and gardens. Look at this country from the air, go on Google Maps. Boris Johnsons final speech as Prime Minister, thanks to all of you for coming out so early this morning, Inonly a couple of hours from now I will be in Balmoral to see Her Majesty The Queen, and the torch will finally be passed to a new Conservative leader, the baton will be handed over in what has unexpectedly turned out to be a relay race, they changed the rules half-way through but never mind that now, and through that lacquered black door a new Prime Minister will shortly go to meet a fantastic group of public servants, the people who delivered the fastest vaccine roll out in Europe, and never forget - 70 per cent of the entire population got a dose within 6 months, faster than any comparable country, that is government for you thats this conservative government. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, said: "For the 70 glorious years of her reign, our Queen was at the heart of this nations life. AUKUS, an idea so transparently right that Labour Conference voted overwhelmingly against it. Every Labour government has left office with unemployment higher than when it came in, every single one, ever since the party was invented. And its a betrayal of our childrens education. But like a seriously rattled bus conductor pushed this way, this way, and that by a Corbyn Easter mob of Sellotaped, spectacled sans-culottes, or the skipper of a cruise liner thats been captured by Somali pirates, desperately trying to negotiate a change of course, and then changing his mind. Thats the good news from Brussels now for the sprouts. B oris Johnson's speech to the CBI has been called a "mess", the "most embarrassing by a Conservative prime minister" since his most recent . Add English on-screen subtitles for videos. Another former prime minister, Theresa May, shared colourful stories of experiences with Queen Elizabeth, including of a meal on the Balmoral estate. Boris Johnson: (24:57) And today, we are going to fix this economy and build back better than ever before. But what will it be by the new year? Harriet Harman, the former acting Labour leader, described the days after she was once sacked as a Cabinet minister. I know that there are some who tell us that were being ungenerous and unfeeling in our attempts to control our borders. Whats labors answer, by the way? It is still a grim fact that in this country Thats right. But which they were told was impossible. Last modified on Tue 23 Nov 2021 09.49 EST. You see how our landscape has been plotted and pieced and jigsawed together by centuries of bequests and litigation, a vast testament to security of titled trust in the law. A RESTful API to access Revs workforce of fast, high quality transcriptionists and captioners. To level up, you need to give people the options, the skills, that are right for them. And to you, the British public, I know that there will be many people who are relieved and perhaps quite a few who will also be disappointed. Thank you. Build back burger, I say. It is four and a half years since the British people voted to take back control of their money, their borders, their laws, and their waters and to leave the European Union. And let me say now, to the people of Ukraine, that I know that we in the U.K. will continue to back your fight for freedom for as long as it takes. Thank you. Not just helping families to get through it, but changing and improving the way we do things, cutting burdens on businesses and families and yes, cutting taxes, because that is the way to generate the growth and the income we need to pay for great public services. But thems the breaks.. And if you dont have to go far to work and your commute isnt too dreadful, and if the job suits your skills and your wifi is fast and reliable, Ill tell you something else, that housing in the right place and at an affordable price will add massively, not just to your general joie de vivre, but to your productivity. Your hip replacement, your mothers surgery. Boris Johnson: (01:50) The way you conducted yourself, the language you used and the message that you brought helped to lay to rest many of the ghosts of our shared history that have cast their shadows over relationships on these islands for centuries.". Crime has been falling. Above all, I want to thank you, the British public, for the immense privilege that you have given me and I want you to know that from now on until the new prime minister is in place, your interests will be served and the government of the country will be carried on. Boris Johnson: (35:00) And we need the spirit of the NHS nurses and the entrepreneurs, because each enables the other. We will fight these gangs at home in abroad because their victims are invariably the poorest and the neediest. Our trade and relations in the Indo-Pacific region are becoming more vital than ever before. In Islington, I kid you not, Ive seen it with my own eyes, they like kids to run races, Ive seen this, where nobody actually wins. Above all, were investing in our skills. The challenge the whole of humanity faces is now even more existential for our way of life. And that is the symmetry in the lesson of the COVID vaccine. Thank you. The answer is to control immigration, to allow people of talent to come to this country, but not to use immigration as an excuse for failure to invest in people, in skills, and in the equipment, the facilities, the machinery. "These were not meetings with a high and mighty monarch, but a conversation with a woman of experience, knowledge and immense wisdom," she said, before joking: "They were also the one meeting I went to that I knew would not be briefed out to the media.". UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a speech at the Conservative Party Annual Conference in Manchester on October 6, 2021. And to that new leader, I say, wherever he or she may be, I say I will give you as much support as I can. And people worry that they will be the 1 in 10 to suffer from the potentially catastrophic cost of dementia, wiping out everything they have and preventing them from passing on anything to their families. Not on green fields, not just jammed in the Southeast, but beautiful homes on Brownfield sites in places where homes make sense. And we are of course providing the short and the long term solutions for our energy needs, and not just using more of our own domestic hydrocarbons but going up by 2030 to 50 GW of wind power, that is half this countrys energy electricity needs from offshore wind. You have rejected additional cookies. She went on: "The British people, the Commonwealth, and all of us in this House, will support him as he takes our country forward to a new era of hope and progress, our New Carolean Age. It means certainty for the police and the border forces and the security services and all those that we rely on across Europe to keep us safe. Its the news, without the news. This is a transcript of his speech, lightly edited for spelling, as reported by Reuters. I am proud to have discharged the promises I made my party when you were kind enough to choose me. In a rare and special gathering, current and former prime ministers, party leaders and MPs share their heartwarming tributes. Mr Johnson later added: "It was that indomitability, that humour, that work ethic, that sense of history which together made her Elizabeth the Great. And to deliver that change, we will get on with our job of uniting and leveling up across the UK, the greatest project that any government can embark on. Since that time we have been getting on with our agenda: enacting the points based immigration system that you voted for and that will come into force on Jan 1 and doing free trade deals with 58 countries around the world and preparing the new relationship with the EU. He opposed step four of the roadmap in July. I saw The Army in action in Glasgow, firing staple guns like carbines as they set up a huge vaccination center. The final comment was met with shouts of "God save the King" from some of those in the Commons chamber. And that is leveling up in action. Go on, try it. That school is Brampton Manor Academy, and it now sends more kids to Oxbridge than Eton. And instead there will be a giant free trade zone of which we will at once be a member and at the same time be able to do our own free trade deals as one UK, whole and entire, England, NI, Scotland and Wales together. I have to tell you, I dont think that is a good preparation for life, let alone for the Olympic games. People did not or could not seek help. As it happens, I cant paint my own front door any color I like. Boris Johnson's Brexit Victory Speech: Full Transcript. Boris Johnson announced a slow loosening of the lockdown rules. Those people gluing themselves to roads, I dont call them legitimate protestors, like some Labour counselors do. If you want proof of what I mean by unleashing potential and by leveling up, look at Brampton Manor. We repaired the damage that Labour left behind. You can change your cookie settings at any time. A tide of anxiety washing into every A&E and every GP. It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party, that there should be a new . And on beating coronavirus and rebuilding our economy. And the answer therefore is not to attack the wealth creators, its to encourage them, because they are responsible for the aggregate increase in the countrys wealth that enables us to make those parieto improvements, and to level up everywhere, and to rub home my point, to rub home my point, it is not just that vaccination has saved more than 120,000 lives. Well, I say to Cruella Deville, QC, if you can steal a dog or a cat, then there is frankly no limit to your depravity. I want to thank the peerless British civil service for all the help and support that you have given our police, our emergency services and, of course, our fantastic NHS, who at critical moment, helped to extend my own period in office, as well as our armed services and our agencies that are so admired around the world. And let me say now, to the people of Ukraine, that I know that we in the U.K. will continue to back your fight for freedom for as long as it takes. Living proof that we, you all represent the most jiving, hip, happening and generally funkapolitan party in the world. British laws will be made solely by the British Parliament. I want to thank Carrie and our children, and all the members of my family who have had to put up with so much for so long. Because there will be no palisade of tariffs on Jan 1. We really are at risk of a kind of no nothing cancel culture iconoclasm. ", Mrs May called the late Queen "quite simply the most remarkable person I have ever met", adding: "I am sometimes asked who, among all the world leaders I met, was the most impressive. An answer that is straight from the powder rooms of North London dinner parties and nothing to do with the real needs of this country. To level up, on top of the extra 14 billion were putting into education, on top of the increase that means every teacher starts with a salary of 30,000 pounds, were announcing today a leveling up premium of up to 3,000 pounds to send the best maths and science teachers to the places that need the most. Lets hear it for Jon Bon Govi. News stories, speeches, letters and notices, Reports, analysis and official statistics, Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports. thanks to all of . And to you, the British public. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson bowed out of his final showpiece parliamentary appearance with a round of applause from his party, jeers from opponents and an enigmatic exit line: "Mission . And you ask yourself, how have the Americans been able to survive without British beef for so long? Published. We will be able to decide how and where we are going to stimulate new jobs and new hope. Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation on coronavirus. Boris Johnson: (13:03) Easily integrate Rev using our robust APIs to start building your product quickly. And they love the groovy new architecture and the fashion and the music and all the rest of it. By Newsweek Staff On 6/24/16 at 8:54 AM EDT. Current and former prime ministers and party leaders rose in the House of Commons dressed in black to share personal stories of the late Queens wit, wisdom and humility. Sir Jeffrey said: "Your Majesty, on an island riven by conflict and division, you were a bridge builder, reaching out to those from opposite sides of the divide, and your work of reconciliation helped to heal wounds and to encourage change. But as weve seen at Westminster, the herd instinct is powerful and when the herd moves, it moves. And its by fixing our broken housing market, sorting out our energy supply, more wind, more nuclear, becoming less dependent on hydrocarbons from abroad, by putting in those transport links, we will hold costs down and save you money. So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voting Conservative for the first time: Thank you for that incredible mandate, the biggest Conservative majority since 1987, the biggest share of the vote since 1979.. 10 Downing Street. Thank you all. And its a confidence that is responsible for so much international investment. But as time has gone by, its become clear to me that this isnt just a joke. He was standing in Stoke Poges. "It is clearly now . Boris Johnson: (31:57) Text settings. And Ive agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now and the timetable will be announced next week. "She was our north, our south, our east and west, our working week and our Sunday rest, our noon, our midnight, our talk, our song. And the answer to the present stresses and strains, which are mainly a function of growth and economic revival, is not to reach for that same old lever of uncontrolled immigration to keep wages low. Boris Johnson: (37:14) And the first time since so many of you worked to defy the skeptics by winning councils and communities that Conservatives have never won in before, such as Hartlepool. Ms. Brianna Fruean, Ms. Txai Suru, Ms. Elizabeth Wathuti. To make the most of those skills and knowledge, you need urgently to plug all the other gaps in the infrastructure that are still holding people and communities back. He was right in front of you. Remember? Its fantastic to see that leveling up. Speaker 1: (13:03) That is why leveling up works for the whole country, and it is the right and responsible policy because it helps to take the pressure off parts of the overheating Southeast while simultaneously offering hope and opportunity to those areas that have felt left behind. After a minutes silence at noon, MPs rose one-by-one to describe what Queen Elizabeth meant to the nation, the public and the wider world, as well as give their own recollections. Boris Johnson: (09:52) The U.K. prime minister was interviewed Monday, Oct. 18. My friends, its not good enough just to rely on Zoom. Well this is it folks. And those three countries, have you been paying attention? Their leader like a seriously rattled bus conductor, pushed this way and that by not that they have bus conductors anymore, unfortunately. We will be able to cherish our landscape and our environment in the way we choose. There are all kinds of improvements that you can make to peoples lives, he said, without diminishing everyone else. Rishi will, Im sure, confirm this. Speech-to-Text API for pre-recorded audio, powered by the worlds leading speech recognition engine. Boris Johnson: (00:00) Not just, by the way, because we took the precaution of locking up the public for much of the last 18 months, but because you have a Conservative government that understands the Broken Windows theory of fighting crime. The British prime minister stepped down as Conservative Party leader after recent scandals prompted a wave of resignations from his top officials. But they had that extra satisfaction that goes with knowing youre doing something to save the planet, and get Britain to net zero by 2050. Boris Johnson: ( 09:37) In the years since Paris, the world has slowly, and with great effort and pain, built a life boat for humanity. But in previous national crises, Labour leaders have opted to minimize public anxiety and confusion by not trying to score cheap party political points, one thinks of Attlee, or even Michael Foote in the Falklands Crisis. And the reason I have fought so hard in the last few days to continue to deliver that mandate in person was not just because I wanted to do so, but because I felt it was my job, my duty, my obligation to you to continue to do what we promised in 2019. Thank you. I think many of you will remember that on 12 January, the Conference on Cyprus first convened here in the Palais des Nations in Geneva, and it had its first opening day at political level. When I was lying in St. Thomas Hospital last year, I looked blearily out of my window at a hole in the ground between the ICU and another much older Victorian section. Boris Johnson's speech in full: 'first, careful steps' to ease Covid-19 lockdown This article is more than 2 years old Read the full text of the UK prime minister's address to the nation on . Its because for months we have had one of the most open economies and societies. And yes, it will take time and sometimes it will be difficult, but that was the change that people voted for in 2016. The chance of meeting the Michael in the disco. Boris Johnson: (20:11) Boris Johnson: (10:46) Become a freelancer and work on your own terms. Transcripts & captions for a better media workflow. There is absolutely no reason why the kids of this country should lag behind and why so many should be unable to read or write or do basic mathematics at 11. And in fact, its the first time since the general election of 2019, when we finally sent that corduroy communist cosmonaut into orbit, where he belongs. We call these Pareto improvements, right? So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voting Conservative for the first time: Thank you for that incredible mandate, the biggest Conservative majority since 1987, the biggest share of the vote since 1979. Boris Johnson has told the country "this is it folks" in his final speech as prime minister - but hinted at a comeback to frontline politics. And in the last few days, I tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to change governments when were delivering so much and when we have such a vast mandate and when were actually only a handful of points behind in the polls, even in mid-term after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging and when the economic scene is so difficult domestically and internationally. Full text: Boris Johnson's Brexit deal speech. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/world/europe/boris-johnson-resignation-speech.html. Boris Johnson: (06:33) We must break the gangsters business model. If young people are to learn on the job in the way that they always have and must, we will and must see people back in the office. Were not going back to the same old broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills and low productivity, all of it enabled and assisted by uncontrolled immigration. And that is how we solve the national productivity puzzle, by fixing the broken housing market, by plugging in the gigabit, by putting in decent, safe bus routes and all the other transport infrastructure, and investing in skills, skills, skills. Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister after a turbulent week of walkouts by his top team. And if you insist on the economic theory behind levelling up, it is contained in the . Thanks to Rishis super deduction, the pace is now accelerating massively as companies thrust the fiber optic vermicelli in the most hard-to-reach places. What I find most incredible of all was the decision by Labour, now led by lefty Islington lawyers, to vote against tougher sentences for serious sexual and violent offenders. Science, innovation, capitalism is vital now for the challenge that we face. By Ben Riley-Smith, Political Editor 9 September 2022 6:37pm. Boris Johnson: (27:00) And our indefatigable Conservative Party members and supporters whose selfless campaigning makes our democracy possible. Get the next 10 weeks from 10 plus a free commemorative coronation mug. I want to thank Carrie and our children, all members of my family who have had to put up with so much, for so long. When COVID broke, the 100,000 beds in the NHS and 30,000 occupied by people who could have been cared for elsewhere, whether at home or in residential care. Boris Johnson: (02:54) I was invited to take tea with the Queen, for her to thank me for my service as Secretary of State. And I dont think it will be a bad thing if we in the UK do things differently, or a take a different approach to legislation. It takes a special interest in cartoons published by right-of-centre newspapers which are accused of bigotry. We have taken back control of every jot and tittle of our regulation. Its been a scandal and a rebuke to what we stand for, that over the last 20 years, the dream of home ownership has receded. Boris Johnson: (32:28) 24 December 2020, 4:09pm; Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Picture credit: Getty. And I am utterly confident that we can and will do it. You can see how beautiful it is. And we will make this country an even more attractive destination for foreign direct investment. Boris Johnson: (39:04) The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made. And so we conservatives will defend our history and cultural inheritance. Because if I have one insight into human beings, it is that genius and talent and enthusiasm and imagination are evenly distributed throughout the population but opportunity is not. Boris Johnson: (18:40) In 1948, this country created the National Health Service but kept social care local. Good afternoon. BBC chairman Richard Sharp resigns what next? And we all know that this problem of delayed discharge is one of the major reasons why it takes too long to get the hospital treatment that your family desperately need. Because although we have left the EU this country will remain culturally, emotionally, historically, strategically and geologically attached to Europe, not least through the four million EU nationals who have requested to settle in the UK over the last four years and who make an enormous contribution to our country and to our lives. "I can tell you as a direct eyewitness that she drove herself in her own car, with no detectives and no bodyguard, bouncing at alarming speed over the Scottish landscape to the total amazement of the ramblers and tourists we encountered.". Let me ask you, maybe you know, where was he standing when he chewed his pensive quill? Fair use is permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. And we can do it. Sir Iain closed his remarks by reading out a reworked poem by WH Auden, edited to pay tribute to the late Queen. Boris Johnson: (12:24) And we in turn thank the volunteers, the public health workers, the council workers, the pharmacists, but above all, our untiring, unbeatable, unbelievable NHS. Mr Johnson, who saw the late Queen on Tuesday at her Scottish estate Balmoral to formally step down as prime minister, called her "the greatest statesman and diplomat of all". Her single bar electric fire, Tupperware-using refusal to be grand, and unlike us politicians with our outriders and our armour-plated convoys. "But whilst she understood the unescapable nature of duty, which sometimes must have weighed upon her heavily, she also delighted in carrying it out, for she was the most devoted monarch.". Boris Johnson: ( 02:54) I urge you all to get your jabs, because every day our vaccine defenses are getting stronger and stronger. The Crown endures. And at the same time, in this country, weve been pushing forward a vast program of investment in infrastructure and skills and technology, the biggest in a century.

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