We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard

We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.

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.

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

I want to win and I want to be in office.

The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.