I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.

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

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.