I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

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

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

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

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