I think I’ve had a very privileged life.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I’m wary of such talk.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

All businessmen are scum.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.