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.

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

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

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

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

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.

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.