I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

I swim three times a week.

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.

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'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.