If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.