“Look the point is … er, what is the point? It is a tough job but somebody has got to do it.”

— Boris Johnson

Toby Helm, "Boris Johnson named shadow arts minister", Daily Telegraph, 7 May 2004, p. 12.
On being appointed Shadow Arts Minister.
2000s, 2004

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