My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.