If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

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

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

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.

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?