I swim three times a week.

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

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and 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.

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

Everyone changes all the time.

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.