We're taking back our parks for our families, children and all park users. All of the public should be able to enjoy safe, clean and healthy parks.

It's probably the No. 1-used park.

Who will be the losers? It will be the sickest, the oldest and those children who did not ask to be born poor.

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'