I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.