The key problem for most Londoners is the incredibly high cost of living, which is why my policies are all designed to save people money, while many will also save carbon as an added bonus. With things like lower transport fares, free insulation available to everyone, more affordable housing, a living wage of £7.20 paid by every employer, and a wider range of local shops and markets providing cheap, healthy food, I’ll improve everyone’s quality of life and cut living costs at the same time.

It was a very strange ‘debate’ which I don’t think Jeremy Paxman handled very well at all. Beforehand, we saw Tim Yeo (Tory head of the Environmental Audit Committee in Parliament) talking about ‘personal carbon quotas’, which are a Green Party policy we believe are the only way to tackle climate change in a socially just way. But then later, when I mentioned this policy in the debate, Paxman reacted like I’d suggested flying all our carbon emissions to the moon. Very odd, and Ken Clarke and Stephen Hale weren’t much help in keeping the debate to the subject in hand either. I thought I said only coherent and sensible things, but the debate as a whole was a bit of a shambles to be honest.

Apart from the fact that most of the Mayor’s initiatives need to be expanded (for example I’d triple the cycling budget), the main policy sticking point between the Greens and Ken Livingstone is that he still wants to build an enormous motorway bridge over the Thames Gateway. This is a policy remaining from his first term in office (before he needed our Green votes in the Assembly to pass his budget) and it would be disastrous for both Londoners and the environment. There will be a huge increase in noise and traffic pollution in east London, and is not the way to solve the transport infrastructure problems facing Londoners.

I’d spend the money on new train and tram services instead and reduce the need for car travel, rather than build more roads, which has never been shown to improve traffic problems.

I love the diversity - of people, lifestyles, culture and above all food. I love that within a few minutes of my home I can choose from, among other things, excellent Brazilian, Ethiopian or Phillipino food for dinner.