Ken livingstone

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.