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

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

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

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

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.