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

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

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 have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.