I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

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

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.

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.