“I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.”

—  Boris Johnson

Ephraim Hardcastle, Daily Mail, 22 July 2003, p. 13.
Asked by pupils of Gillott's School in his constituency whether he would like the job of Prime Minister.
2000s, 2003

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