Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

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

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

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.