The balloting was seen as a dismal referendum on the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose support has ebbed as Britain has slipped toward an economic downturn.
Gag reflex
He’s also well-known for his funny and audacious quotes. A sampling:
• On ethnicity, making a reference to his wife being half-Indian: “I’m down with the ethnics. You can’t out-ethnic me . . . my children are a quarter Indian, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.”
• On his political ambitions: “My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.”
• On US President George W. Bush: “He liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.”
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