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Conservative Party Conference: Boris Johnson and Zac Goldsmith speeches; Boris Johnson speech SOTand apart from grunting and heaving the crucial thing you have to do as a tight head - in fact just about the only thing you have to do apart from grunting and trying to stop the other guy sticking his fingers up your noseis to bind on tightly and correctly - in my case to the hooker(insert joke here, as Jeremy Corbyn's autocue would say)and it is the rugby scrum that provides a metaphor for my political beliefsbecause our lives are really a gigantic collective effortin which one person's bulk makes up for another person's slightness of statureand where everyone is so tightly bound together that one person's forward progress drives another person's forward progressand that is the society we need - not just a big society, but a united societywhere the different elements are bound together by an irreducible set of valuesdemocracy and freedom and equality under the lawand let no one say these ideas are trite, or trivial- not in a Britain where men and women are now being segregated at university societies and whereyoung girls are suffering the abomination of female genital mutilationand I applaud those two fantastic London MPs Justine Greening and Jane Ellison for their campaign against a vice that has been tolerated for too long in the name of political correctnessI want a Britain united by command of the English languageWhen I meet people who have been here for decades - very often women - without learning this essential tool of economic participationI think it is not just a failure to integrate but a kind of oppressionthe logical consequence of the politically correct multicultural loony-ism of the leftand if dear Jezza is wondering whether to sing the national anthemcan I recommend that he comes to City Hall for our annual citizenship ceremonywhere people from around the world queue t...