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Boris Johnson speech at Farnborough Air show; ITN POOL (GB NEWS)ENGLAND: Hampshire: Farnborough: Farnborough Air Show:INT Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT-we know that we must fix it we know that time is running out and that is why one of the first things I initiated 3 years ago was a project called Jet Zero in which I think many of you are participating and thank you very much for what you are doing - a zero carbon plane and people think it’s impossible they say pigs might fly well let me tell you this is not only the country that built the first jet engine, but the first plane across the AtlanticIn 1909 a pilot by the name of john Theodore Cuthbert Moore Brabazon took off with a six week old piglet in a waste paper basket tied to the strut of a Short Brothers biplane We showed that pigs could fly a hundred years ago and we are going to fix zero carbon aviation as well not just because it’s right for our planet but because it will drive jobs and growth around the country and that is why, today, we are investing a further quarter of a billion today in UK aviation technology and innovation and so, in conclusion, I want you to know that after 3 happy years in the cockpit and after performing some pretty difficult if not astonishing featsgetting Brexit done and restoring this country’s ability to make its own laws in parliament vaccinating our population faster than any other comparable country and ensuring the fastest growth in the G7 and being the first European country to give the Ukrainians the vital military help they need see off Putin’s aggression not to mention, cutting neighbourhood crime by 31 per cent lowest unemployment for almost 50 years gigabit broadband from 7 to 69 per cent households in this country and many many other statisticsI am now going to hand over the controls seamlessly to someone elseI don’t know who but whoever it is I can tell you that the twin engines, the great Rolls Royce twin engines of this conservative...