It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

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

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.