There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

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.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

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.