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

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

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

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?