I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

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

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.