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.

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

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

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

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

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.