I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

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.

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

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

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.