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.

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.

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

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

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

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

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.