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.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.