I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.