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.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.