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.

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

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

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

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.

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.