00:00Now, as you may know, when I address my own Parliament at Westminster, we still follow
00:07an age-old tradition and take a Member of Parliament hostage, holding him or her at Buckingham
00:16Palace until I am safely returned.
00:22These days, we look after our guests rather well, to the point that they often do not
00:28want to leave.
00:33I don't know, Mr Speaker, if there were any volunteers for that role here today.
00:47The bond of kinship and identity between America and the United Kingdom is priceless and eternal.
00:54It is irreplaceable and unbreakable.
01:10This is a city which symbolises a period in our shared history, or what Charles Dickens
01:17might have called, A Tale of Two Georges.
01:32The first President, George Washington, and my five-times great-grandfather, King George
01:37III.
01:39King George, as you know, never set foot in America.
01:44And please rest assured, ladies and gentlemen, I am not here as part of some cunning rear-guard
01:50action.
01:57So one is all about action.
01:59I am here just to come out and impress on news and
02:00I am here as I am.
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