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.

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

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.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

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.