“I could not fail to disagree with you less.”

— Boris Johnson

2004 winner of the Foot in Mouth Award from the Plain English Campaign, for his comment on the 12 December 2003 edition of Have I Got News For You http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/footinmouth.html
2000s, 2003

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