If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

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

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

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

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