Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.