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

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

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.