Occupation: Politician Birth: December 31, 1953
My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together..
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone..
I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian..
It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should st….
I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the….
Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, un….
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm i….
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committe….
Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. In….
You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws..
Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book..
Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough..
To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community ….
We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary..
There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain..
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do..
The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because o….