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. Under Title 17 U.S.C. I am proud to have discharged the promises I made my party when you were kind enough to choose me. 23 March 2020. Latin, I hear. Seve. Science, innovation, capitalism is vital now for the challenge that we face. Quill, anybody know? Section 107, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. winning the biggest majority since 1987 and the biggest share of the vote since 1979. delivering our manifesto commitments including social care, ensuring that Britain is once again standing tall in the world, from Ukraine to the AUKUS pact with America and Australia, because we are one whole and entire United Kingdom whose diplomats, security services and armed forces are so globally admired, and as I leave I believe our union is so strong that those who want to break it up, will keep trying but they will never ever succeed, thank you to everyone behind me in this building for looking after me and my family over the last three years so well including Dilyn, the dog, and if Dilyn and Larry can put behind them their occasional difficulties, then so can the Conservative party, and above all thanks to you, the British people, to the voters for giving me the chance to serve, all of you who worked so tirelessly together to beat covid to put us where we are today, Together we have laid foundations that will stand the test of time, whether by taking back control of our laws or putting in vital new infrastructure, great solid masonry on which we will continue to build together, paving the path of prosperity now & for future generations. And I should stress this deal was done by a huge negotiating team from every part of the UK, and it will benefit every part of our United Kingdom, helping to unite and level up across the country. Thank you all. As Ive been saying over this wonderful conference to you, when I became leader of this party, there were only, can you remember what percentage of households had gigabit broadband when you were so kind as to make me leader? Were doing the Borders Bill. If you insist on the economic theory behind leveling up, its contained in the inside of Vilfredo Pareto, a 19th-century Italian figure who floated from the cobwebbed attic of my memories. Only 7%. 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: (18:40) Does anyone seriously imagine that we should not now be raising the funding to sort this out? 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. With the UKs share of fish in our waters rising substantially, from roughly half today to closer to 2/3 in five and a half years time after which there is no theoretical limit beyond those placed by science or conservation on the quantity of our own fish that we can fish in our waters. 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. Is it not a sublime irony that even in French politics there is now a leading center right politician calling for a referendum on the EU, who is now calling for France to [French 00:21:14]. Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. Boris Johnson: (28:56) To persevering in the vital task . 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. What royal jelly are they eating, that they live seven years longer than the people of Blackpool, only 33 miles away? And sadly, that was not the approach taken by Captain [Hindsight 00:34:49], attacking one week, rowing in behind when it seemed to be working, the human weather vein, the Starmer chameleon, and in his final absurd act of opportunism, he decided to oppose step four. These vaccines have ensured that by a simple [inaudible 00:31:21] mutation, jabs, jabs, jabs become jobs, jobs, jobs. 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 that was the change that people voted for again, powerfully in 2019. Boris Johnson: (00:47) Ian Blackford, the Scottish National Party leader in Westminster, said: "She was a monarch who reigned with compassion and integrity and established a deep connection with the public. You need deep pools of liquidity, that are to be found in the city of London. The final comment was met with shouts of "God save the King" from some of those in the Commons chamber. We have taken back control of laws and our destiny. And fixing those backlogs with real change, because the pandemic not only put colossal pressure on the NHS, it was a lightning flash illumination of a problem we have failed to address for decades. You can see how beautiful it is. And why is it that we are back today for a traditional Conservative cheek by jowler? 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. It was not the government that made the wonder drug. Above all, were investing in our skills. even fewer have the same moral priorities. I laughed too, and then she laughed again - whether at me or with me, I could not figure out," he said. "No one else wanted to have anything to do with me, but the Queen wanted to see me. 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 . It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister, and Ive agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench M.P.s, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now and the timetable will be announced next week. Boris Johnson: (26:03) And though the disease has sadly not gone away, the impact on death rates has been astonishing. Did you watch them last week in Brighton, hopelessly divided, I thought they looked? Boris Johnson Interviewed by Bloomberg News: Transcript. As we come out of COVID, our towns and cities are going to be buzzing with life because we know that a productive workforce needs the spur that only comes with face-to-face meetings and water cooler gossip. Because of the speed and urgency of what you did, everybody involved in this government, to get this economy moving again from July last year in spite of all the opposition, all the naysayers, we have and will continue to have that economic strength to give people the . Create a better, more engaging experience for every student. Get a weekly digest of the weeks most important transcripts in your inbox. Vast, untouched moorland, hills, and broad-leafed forests. And that is leveling up in action. "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.". Below is a transcript of the in-person interview in London. Were planting tens of millions of trees. 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. Delivered on: 6 September 2022 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Boris Johnson's final speech as Prime Minister. We must break the gangsters business model. A tide of anxiety washing into every A&E and every GP. Remember? Is Wrexhams Hollywood fairytale heading for an unhappy ending? 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. Boris Johnson: (27:54) thanks to all of . Its a tech company worth more than a billion dollars each. And my friends in politics, no-one is remotely indispensable and our brilliant and Darwinian system will produce another leader, equally committed to taking this country forward through tough times. Im really proud to be part of a Conservative government that will welcome 20,000 Afghans, people who risked their lives to guide and translate for us. Anybody know? We have demand surging, and Im pleased to say that after years of stagnation, more than a decade, wages are going up faster than before the pandemic began. Were helping young people onto the property ladder with our 95% mortgages. This is a transcript of his speech, lightly edited for spelling, as reported by Reuters. WATCH: Johnson . "And when I call her that - Elizabeth the Great - I should add one final quality: her humility. We will restore those sinews of the union that have been allowed to atrophy: The A1 north of Berwick and on into Scotland, the A75 in Scotland that is so vital for the links with Northern Ireland and the rest of the country, the North Wales corridor. That is why we are building back better with a once in a century 640 billion pound program of investment. "I had a split-second decision to make: I picked up the cheese, put it on a plate and put the plate on the table. Its all about opportunity. 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. Anyone can read what you share. If Columbus had listened to Captain Hindsight, hed be famous for having discovered Tenerife. I think that some Labour counselors actually glue themselves to roads. I read a learned article by some lawyer saying we shouldnt bother about pet theft. They do. Its a disgrace that you still cant swiftly cross the Pennines by rail, a disgrace that Leeds is the largest city in Europe with no proper Metro system, a waste of human potential that so many places are not served by decent bus routes. And you ask yourself, how have the Americans been able to survive without British beef for so long? Those people gluing themselves to roads, I dont call them legitimate protestors, like some Labour counselors do. Boris Johnson: (26:27) Boris Johnson pledged his "fervent support" to Tory Party successor Liz Truss as he said farewell to No10 on Tuesday morning. And to fix these twin problems of the NHS and social care, we arent just going to siphon billions of new taxes into crucial services without improving performance. 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. [inaudible 00:44:24]. 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's Brexit Victory Speech: Full Transcript. Get the next 10 weeks from 10 plus a free commemorative coronation mug. The idea in a nutshell is that you will find talent, genius, flare, imagination, enthusiasm everywhere in this country, all of them evenly distributed, evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. 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. Let me ask you, maybe you know, where was he standing when he chewed his pensive quill? The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made. 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. Our trade and relations in the Indo-Pacific region are becoming more vital than ever before. Because although we want the UK to be a science superpower, we also want to be a collaborative science superpower. Theyre absolutely right. And now is the time to give that life boat a mighty shove into the water, like some great liner . She was down to earth and a woman of common sense. 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. You made each other safer. The prime minister . Her single bar electric fire, Tupperware-using refusal to be grand, and unlike us politicians with our outriders and our armour-plated convoys. A special gathering of Parliament began on Friday and will continue in a rare Saturday sitting - one of just a handful since the Second World War. Its an incredible thing, incredible thing to come, yet again, in the top four, a formidable effort for a country that has only 0.8% of the worlds population, in spite, Jacob, of all our best efforts, but we of some of us. And if one side believes it is somehow being unfairly undercut by the other, then subject to independent third party arbitration and provided the measures are proportionate, we can either of us decide as sovereign equals to protect our consumers. And those unicorns are now dispersed around the United Kingdom in a way that is new to our country. Boris Johnson gave his final speech as Prime Minister on the steps of Downing Street. And its a confidence that is responsible for so much international investment. "The hampers came from the castle, and we all mucked in to put the food and drink out on the table. 30,000 have already applied. If you want a supreme example of global Britain in action, of something daring and brilliant, that would simply not have happened if wed remained in the EU, I give you AUKUS. 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. Its wonderful for years, the SNP leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford has been telling the Commons that he is nothing but a humble crofter on the Isle of Skye. 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. Published. 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. And we knew that some people would still be anxious, so we sent top government representatives to our sweatiest [French 00:01:20] to show that anyone could dance perfectly safely. Its not a mythical beast. 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. COVID pushed out a great bow wave of cases. But they like it for the way it emerges organically. AFP. "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.". I remember her innocent joy more than 10 years ago after the opening ceremony of the London Olympics when I told her that a leader of a friendly Middle Eastern country seemed actually to believe that she had jumped out of a helicopter in a pink dress and parachuted into the stadium," he said. They dont like leveling up. To decriminalize hard drugs, apparently, to let the gangsters off with a caution. Discover why Rev is the #1 speech-to-text service in the world. And in the last few days, Ive 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 midterm after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging and when the economic scene is so difficult domestically and internationally. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. 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. And thats why we must keep leveling up, keep unleashing the potential in every part of the United Kingdom. Boris Johnson: (32:28) The Crown endures. Otters are returning to rivers from which theyve been absent for decades, beavers that have not been seen on some rivers since Tudor times, massacred for their pelts, are now back. And delivering jobs across the country. Thats why leveling up means fighting crime, putting more police out on the beat, as we are, toughening sentences, rolling up the county lines, drugs networks, as we are, 1,100 of them gone already, giving the police the power they need to fight these dealers in death and misery. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Boris Johnson: (33:56) And Ive today appointed a cabinet to serve, as I will, until the new leader is in place. In his speech to the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that it is time for mankind to grow up and take responsibility for the damage we are inflicting on the planet. The challenge the whole of humanity faces is now even more existential for our way of life. Calculate how much it costs to transcribe, caption, or subtitle your content. To level up, you need to give people the options, the skills, that are right for them. 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. And though I have every sympathy with people genuinely in fear of their lives, I have no sympathy whatever with the people traffickers who take thousands of pounds to send children to sea in frail and dangerous craft and we must end this lethal trade. We spent 407 billion pounds on COVID support and our debt now stands at over 2 trillion pounds. And I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world. Go on, try it. I remember one picnic at Balmoral that was taking place in one of the bothies on the estate. Actually, Im told tonight its 68% by the new year. An official in Johnson's Downing Street office confirmed the prime minister would announce his resignation later. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/world/europe/boris-johnson-resignation-speech.html. Gene editing, data management, AI, cyber, quantum, and were going to be ever more global in our outlook. 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. And when they began to attack Churchill as a racist, I was minded to ignore them because its only 20 years ago since BBC audiences overwhelmingly voted in the Greatest Britain of All Time, because he helped to defeat a regime after all. And waiting lists will almost certainly go up before they come down. Boris Johnson leaves his house following the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union, London . I say, they are a confounded nuisance who are blocking ambulances, stopping people going about their daily lives, and Im glad Pretty is taking new powers to insulate them snugly in prison where they belong. Lets be clear that there is a huge philosophical difference between us and Labour, because in their souls, they dont like leveling up. I want to thank the wonderful staff here at No. I turned round to see that my every move had been watched very carefully by Her Majesty the Queen. 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. From Jan 1 we are outside the customs union, and outside the single market. And that is the symmetry in the lesson of the COVID vaccine. We are doing the right and responsible thing. 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. And on beating coronavirus and rebuilding our economy. To help us improve GOV.UK, wed like to know more about your visit today. And amid the rubble of brick, they seemed to be digging a hole for someone or something, or indeed someone, possibly me. The Labour leader attacked the Vaccine Task Force for spending money on outreach to vaccine-hesitant minority groups, when its hard to think of any better use of public money. 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 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. Vaccination has allowed us to meet like this and blessed us with such rapid growth, with wages rising fastest for those on lowest incomes. She came to the throne at just 25 in a country that was emerging from the shadow of war. Boris Johnson: (20:11) And they had the same excitement at working amid winds and waves, and be able to see whales and dolphins from the office window. Boris Johnson: (30:19) Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister after a turbulent week of walkouts by his top team. Fantastic to see you all here. Build back beaver. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain announced on Thursday that he would step down. She bequeaths a modern, dynamic nation that has grown and flourished under her reign. The human species, said Mr. Johnson, is nearing the end of the adolescent phase of . Were doing at least eight free ports, super-fertilized loam, in which business will be able to plant new jobs across the UK. And our indefatigable Conservative Party members and supporters whose selfless campaigning makes our democracy possible. The worlds most effective vaccines have saved our open society and free market economy, and it is our open society and free market economy that have produced the worlds most effective vaccines. You can read the full text of his speech below. Were already number one, look at the Nissan investment in Sunderland, the Pfizer vaccine manufacturing center thats coming to Swindon, and with these productivity gains, we will turbocharge that advantage and help businesses to start and grow everywhere. 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 . Boris Johnson: (00:00) 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. The Guardian thinks of itself as Britains fearless liberal conscience, trigger-sensitive to racist dog whistles in the language and editorial judgements of everyone except itself. A few years ago, they started a school not far from the Olympic Park. Because that is what counts, the spirit of our Olympians. Its not just that theres a gap between London and the Southeast and the rest of the country, there are aching gaps within the regions themselves. And the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice will come to an end. And just as we used our new freedoms to accelerate the vaccine rollout, were going to use Brexit freedoms to do things differently. 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. Skills, folks. It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party, that there should be a new . The cheese fell on the floor. Thank you. I can tell you something, Margaret Thatcher would not have ignored the meteorite that has just crashed through the public finances. With freeports and new green industrial zones. 24 December 2020, 4:09pm; Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Picture credit: Getty. Correct. And I regret not to have been successful in those arguments, and of course its painful not to be able to see through so many ideas and projects myself. 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. And he ended with the observation, Man is spirit. I think he was right there, dont you? Boris Johnson was briefly lost for words when he appeared to lose his place during a speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference in South Shields on Monday. Frontline care workers battled against a new disease, selflessly risking their lives, sacrificing their lives. Transcribe your audio files to find high-impact insights in minutes. They like leveling down. The British prime minister stepped down as Conservative Party leader after recent scandals prompted a wave of resignations from his top officials. "My point is that the relationship between our Queen and Parliament, and our Queen and Government, was never just on paper, but was always active and always encouraging.". 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. Boris Johnson: (24:57) Boris Johnson: (23:32) And I want to stress that although of course the arguments with our European friends and partners were sometimes fierce this is, I believe a good deal for the whole of Europe and for our friends and partners as well. 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 . And he knew that that was an injustice. And after decades of drift and dither, this reforming government, this can-do government, this government that got Brexit done, thats getting the COVID vaccine roll out done, is going to get social care done and we are going to deal with the biggest underlying issues of our economy and society. How utterly astonishing that in the last few weeks, Labour should actually have voted against the funding were putting forward for the NHS.