Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

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

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've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

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

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