The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

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

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

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.