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I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

The Conservatives, along with Labour, I don't think understand what it is like to run a business.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.