Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.