I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.