The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

Everyone changes all the time.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.