I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

I swim three times a week.

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.

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

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.