People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?