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

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

Everyone changes all the time.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

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

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.