You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

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.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

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