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.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

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

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

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