'Turning down Andrew Neil at eleven at night was probably a mistake because Esther Rantzen became my body double and lectured me resoundingly on what Britain has done for me'

The Greeks do not — indeed cannot — pay their debts and yet they do not want to leave the euro. Something has got to give

“We live in an age of cuts. We are a working class town, that's our strength – and in the current climate, our weakness.”

At the Bush Theatre, London