I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

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

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 spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

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