The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.