Voting, for me, has always been a family affair.
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.
A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation.
The U.K. has some of the toughest legislation on hate crime in the world, and it is there to keep us all safe.
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.
Education is important even beyond the bounds of the opportunities it gives to the individual; it is a crucial and basic requirement for ensuring effective democracy and human rights.
People need to be able to read what their rights are, to be able to participate and hold their governments to account.
Women with opportunities are women who can contribute.
I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.
It is not enough to pay lip service to diversity.
Muslims, like most other voters, don't just want 'one of their own,' they want someone who best represents their values.
Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.
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.
I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.
When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started to be called Asians.
London made my family and myself.
One of the things that's important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.
London chose to come out in record numbers, the highest turnout there's ever been in a mayoral election, and - I say this not with arrogance; it is what others have said - the single biggest mandate a British politician has ever received. That shows what a wonderful city we are.
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.
I've been blessed - every job I've had I've loved, whether it's as a lawyer, MP, cabinet minister.
