Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

It's dramatically less. We think the return would be massively beneficial.