Vote for Me! is a self-portrait as Margaret Thatcher. There's an assumption in the art world that all artists are left of centre - and that all their audience is left of centre as well. They're just alienating half their audience!

I often ask gallery directors when their next Tory exhibition will be, because they're always having exhibitions about very progressive subjects. You've got to tease the Left nowadays because they're just as full of pomposity and orthodoxy as the Right.

I expect though, that as you get richer, you get more Tory. When your tax bill passes the prime minister's wages, as mine did a few years ago, then you suddenly get very politically concerned.

Grayson Perry