I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

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

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.

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.