I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

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

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

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

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

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

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