It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I swim three times a week.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.