"I can assure the Right Honorable Gentleman that in this house I see myself as a colossal god-king, a powerful beast from another realm, blessed with the powers of destruction, and I will run through the Palace of Westminster, lashing at all I encounter with the metal prong-whips. And all shall perish."
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Speech to the House of Commons, Thu 21 Apr 2016; reported in The Daily Telegraph, Fri 21 April 2016, p. 8.
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