We dragged the National Health Service from the depths of degradation. I've got a United Nations heart bypass to prove it and it was done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor and a Nigerian registrar.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

I have bought my flat myself and never charged a penny of it to the taxpayers.

I was elected by people voting Labour! The idea that you come to Parliament and the first thing you do is that you're hand in hand with Tories and Liberals - I can't understand it! I came here and I made my mind up that I wasn't going to collaborate with the people I'd fought against in the election. It wasn't a difficult thing.

I'm not gregarious. I spend a lot of time in the parks when it is fine. I do know almost every blade of grass.

I did marathons long before they were popular, when people running round the streets were looked at oddly.