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

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

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.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.