If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

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

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

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