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Margaret Thatcher Centre Gala Awards dinner at London Guildhall: Boris Johnson receives award; ENGLAND: City of London: Guildhall: INTBoris Johnson (Former Prime Minister, 2019-2022) continues speech SOT (2/5)....''I'm amazed to see so many wealth creators still in our city, still in the UK my friends, because talented people are not just fleeing to Dubai. Met a lot of Dubai people just now. Dubai the 17th biggest British city, they're fleeing to Milan, to Portugal, they're going to Belgium. When Mrs. Thatcher went to Bruges to make that great speech in 1989, did she think that 35 years later people would be scarpering from London, fleeing an economy she had so brilliantly emancipated and galvanised and seeking refuge amongst the moon munching Belgies I don't think so. And when you look at the state of the Shah (?), my old friend, the President, the former Prime Minister of Belgium is here tonight. And he will bear witness to the accuracy of what I have to say.""When you look at the state of the UK economy, it feels exactly like the lead up to 1979, that pivotal moment. And when you look around the world, it feels like we're back in the Cold War with the autocracies meeting in Shanghai to cock-a-snook at the West in that Adams family line-up of global uber creeps that we saw assembled by Xi Jinping and with a revanchist Moscow engaged in the most vicious and brutal war of the last 80 years. killing innocent Ukrainians bombing them in their flats this very night while we're having this dinner. We've got Russian drones in the skies above Poland, Russian jets over Estonia, Russian cyber attacks crippling the British car industry that Margaret Thatcher did so much to revive. And so we need her now. We need her spirit and we need her resolve. And we need her to fix Putin with her Basilisk gaze and with her breathy but irresistible contralto voice to tell the ex-KGB man, Mr. Putin, the same truth that she once delivered to his forebears in Moscow, that he canno...