I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

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

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and 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.

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