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.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

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.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

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.

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

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.