Politician

A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation.

As the mayor of London, my highest priority is keeping Londoners and visitors to our city safe from harm.

People end up on the street for many different reasons - leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup - and so the help they need is varied, too.

I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the biggest impact on the lives of the majority of British Muslims and do the most to prevent potential being fulfilled.

I'll be my own man and work closely with a Tory Government if it is in London's interest.

The best way for people to understand each other's faith is to share experiences.

Probation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn't make it any less important. Hundreds of thousands of offenders each year are rehabilitated back into society by probation, which is crucial for the public's safety.

I've been blessed - every job I've had I've loved, whether it's as a lawyer, MP, cabinet minister.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

Only Labour is in a position to protect individual rights against abuses by the state.

London is the greatest city in the world.

One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

Labour allowed ourselves to be painted as anti-business for talking about insecurity, when in reality, the opposite was true.

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm miserable during Ramadan. Some would say I'm miserable all year round, but it does affect my mood.

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.

London made my family and myself.

It is the Labour party that has always sought to address the problems facing British Muslims, because we believe it is one of our primary functions to tackle the problems faced by the most vulnerable in our society.

I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.

Islam is misunderstood by many. The extremists grab the headlines; those of us who want to practise our religion and live under this country's laws do not make the news.