I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

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

I grew up in a house with very few books.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

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

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

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